took two hours. , I finally finished reading Lao Ku’s "A Clockwork Orange". . Leaving the screen, my head is still in a state of chaos, the ninth symphony in my head is still roaring in my ears, and the scenes of bloody scenes still make my mind spin. Those azure blue eye pupils still make me unable to forget.
The beginning of the movie is a milky white innocence. Following Alek’s confession, it is a close-up of Alex’s face. He is wearing a bowler hat with a grinning face and exaggerated lines on the upper and lower sides of his right eye. Fake eyelashes. Then the camera stretched out, and three of Alex’s companions appeared, with the same outfits, except that Alex’s sleeve had two more bloody eyeballs. This appearance was mixed with a bloody bastard. Civilization stick in hand. Wear briefs on the waist. She was wearing a gentleman's fur, and her heart was filled with a sinful impulse.
"What shall I do tonight?" Below this big question mark, there are scenes of miserable scenes, going to beat the old beggar under the bridge, fighting with the same criminal gang, driving a sports car on the highway squall, and rushing into it. The writer’s brutality broke the writer’s legs, and the writer’s woman was gang-raped. Kubrick gave me a bloody and violent world from the very beginning, the old beggar curled up under the overpass, the tearing cry of the girl, and the blood flow. Fighting with all faces, cruelly playing with others. Alex is a young man with a violent element in his soul. All his behaviors are just violence, not for money or women, but for the pursuit and transcendence of an essential desire in his heart. He is still obsessed with Beethoven’s music hobby. By. Can't help but think of the lunatic detective in "This Hand Killer Is Not So Cold". Violence puts on a lofty artistic cloak, it is a kind of contrived work of a madman climbing the threshold of genius and god.
Alex still ran around in the city and did evil, until one day, because of disharmony with his companions, they were framed, after Alex used a huge art penis to kill the young lady bodybuilder, he went to jail and was jailed. From here, the image of an angry young man doing evil in a society moved from neurotic weirdness to the right way. After being in prison, Alex looked like a person. After removing his gorgeous coat, he became more gentle, and even believed in God in prison. I I would rather believe that this is a means by which he wants to leave as soon as possible. Because I am convinced that the sin on him is indelible. The ridiculous thing is that he succeeded, and he is being tested by the government. After Rudovico's treatment, he wandered and returned to society naturally after two years with a kind heart. At this time, he became a completely kind person. In front of the politicians, Alex under the spotlight became a person who refused to swear or fight back, endure humiliation, and never dare to see the attractive carcass. A gentleman who goes to touch. This change makes me very sympathetic to a large extent, because it is a kind of distortion and excision. .
The happy and colorful Alex suffered a huge injury as soon as he returned home. His parents who were still resenting joined a resident who had invaded his room and drove Alex out of the house. The protagonist was pacing. Jiangbian tried to find his own short-sightedness, but was accidentally beaten by the old beggar who had been beaten by him. This is tantamount to a nightmare for him who has lost the physical function of fighting back. He can only curl up on the ground and vomit. At this time, the two policemen who had heard the news became Alex’s savior. They drove off the beggars, their faces covered with blood. Alek thought he would wake up from a nightmare, but he didn’t expect it to be these two. The men in uniform turned out to be the two companions who followed him to do evil and framed him to jail two years ago. These two men forced Alek to a small village with no one, and threw him in the countryside after being drunk and beaten up. . Alek was already ruined physically and mentally at this time, and he crawled outside the door of a family to ask for help. Lao Ku’s tricks have not been played enough. Alex is destined to be a tragic character. He asked for help. This family was actually the home of a writer who was brutalized by him two years ago. Although Alex was not recognized at first, it was because While taking a bath, he proudly sang the song that he had sung in this house two years ago, but after hearing this familiar song, the writer remembered that this young man was the one who raped his wife and beaten himself two years ago. The writer had an abacus at this time. He wanted to turn Alex into a political tool. He stunned Alek with alcohol and, together with two other politicians, locked Alek in the room and put it downstairs. I played Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which was once Alek’s favorite song, but because of the brainwashing, I was made to end my thoughts every time I heard this song. Alek, whose music was so painful, couldn't stand the music of killing people, and the notes were nailed into his heart like nails. Poor Alex could only climb onto the windowsill and fly to the ground amid the huge roar of the Ninth Symphony. Although his face cannot be seen by the camera, I think he must have a relieved smile on his face.
I thought that the movie should be over here, and the Kafka-style tragedy should be closed, but the curtain covering Alex’s suffering was lifted up in a white ward again, and the catastrophe survived. Alek was once again heavily influenced by the media, and once again became a tool used in political struggles. This time the politicians did not treat him badly. They arranged for Alek to receive the most common treatment. At this time, Alex’s parents Also made up with him again and came to the hospital to visit him. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony sounded again, and the music enveloped the banded Alek. The child had a smile that was no longer evil without the slightest pain. He was healed. The perfect ending.
After watching the movie, my heart still couldn't squeeze out. The beginning of the movie gave me an extremely absurd world. The right to beat others everywhere, indulge in the exaggeration of casual life, the scenes of unspeakable heart from feelings. If such a world is apparently ugly, then the world after Alek’s release from prison is that even the last layer of humanity has been torn off, the abandonment of parents, the gang fights of old beggars, the police knowing and breaking the law, and the political intentions of the writer. , What is more malfeasance lens than this. And in the end, the politician embracing the illusion of Alex's sublimation under the flash light, and hypocritically announced the criminal political victory. The worlds in the three different periods are extremely ugly. If I had to choose one, I would choose the first one. Although cruel, it is real and can embody human existence.
In Burgess' original book, his definition of a Clockwork Orange is as follows: "Because people are given free will in the definition, they can choose good and evil from this. They can only do good, or only do evil. A person who has become a clockwork orange-that is, his appearance is organic, it seems to have a lovely color juice, and in practice is only a clockwork toy, played by God, the devil, or the omnipotent nation. Thorough good is as inhumane as total evil. The most important thing is the right to choose morality.” There is no doubt that Alec is such a clockwork orange in the movie. Alex accepted the transformation and had to give up violence to alleviate his own suffering. He would rather be beaten than engage in violence. However, Alex, who cannot use violence, cannot survive after re-entering the society. He cannot cope with the various violent behaviors in society. Even the frail and old man cannot fight back. The most ironic thing is that He had to seek asylum in the home of his former victim of violence, and finally committed suicide by jumping off the building because he couldn't stand the pain caused by the music! No one can think of such a helpless and ridiculous end. At this time, Alek was no longer the young man full of evil, but a poor worm that was squeezed out by his family and society.
The theme of "A Clockwork Orange" is "people must have the right to choose morality." Society needs rules. The establishment of rules is carried out by the government, but these rules are not enough to become all the norms for our free life, and no society has prevented it. The power of others to degenerate. As long as the behavior of the perpetrator does not cause any influence on others, there is no power to stop the behavior of the perpetrator. For example, smoking, for example, alcoholism. There is indeed no law that prohibits smoking or alcoholism. However, the social moral system's contempt and accusation of depraved behaviors such as the above makes it impossible for the perpetrator to choose according to his own wishes. Cigarettes or every drink of wine have to endure the extremely disgusting gaze of opponents. It is also because of such unbearable psychological pain that many people are forced to quit smoking and drinking. To some extent, these people have also become clockwork oranges within a certain range. .
Everyone has the right to choose their own life. It is impossible for everyone to be a kind and innocent child. Then we will live in the sky city of Gong Qijun. Pursuing the freedom of self-recognition does not mean it is Degenerate yourself uncontrollably. Whether it is to indulge extreme free will or stifle the right to choose, it is a huge threat to the survival of mankind. Both are terrible, but the loss of the right to choose is even more devastating.
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