this kind of thing always makes people think, and the thought cannot stop.
Although this is a movie in these decades, it has been commented by countless people. The controversial movie. But we should still think independently, although it may deviate from the original intention of Lao Ku.
From the beginning of the movie, the scene. The furnishings are already violent and sexually suggestive. Alex and his companion started their day with a glass of drug-containing milk. All kinds of people are insulted everywhere. In the dark aisle, the old man’s singing made them boring. In the woods at night, the wind rushes and shouts loudly, which can give them pleasure. In the abandoned casino, they staged violence like a stage play. . . He broke into a writer’s house and gang-raped the writer’s wife while wearing a mask. Infiltrated the farm and killed the hostess. At this time, the companion betrayed him.
After going to jail, he felt that he was not hopeless. And finally got the opportunity to be transformed by the government with new technology for two weeks. This is a way of using violence to control violence, so that he will feel sick to all violent acts. The government's experiment was successful. But in fact, he became a person without the ability to choose "good" and "evil" by himself, but just became a clockwork orange. Only those who seem to have fruit-like vitality on the surface, seem to be healthy, but there are only unfree people who are mechanical and have no ability to choose.
When he returned to the real world, he found that the world was full of violent faces. When he did not choose violence, there was violence against him. In the end he became the darling of politics, as "I'm healed", and became a prisoner of political violence.
Perhaps the history of mankind is a history of violence. This is a farce full of violence, and sex has become a partner of violence. And music is always the source or accompanying name of violence. Like the mastermind in "LEON", he is also a crazy fan of Beethoven, and his violent actions are accompanied by the ups and downs of the symphony. And ALEX said, "Music came from an open window, and I immediately knew what to do", "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony". "Song in the Rain" hummed repeatedly by ALEX. Elgar Rossini "Turkish March" further highlights Kubrick's violent calmness in the face of the world. His exaggeration and irony do not compromise the solemnity of his attitude.
Tears of violence in reality. ALEX goes from the actor of the mocking to the object of being mocked. We have all made ourselves unfree like him. Can't choose. And choosing the former or the latter is contrary to something.
I heard that Kubrick did not shoot the last chapter of Burgess' novel, the twenty-first chapter. In this chapter, Alex got rid of the "Clockwork Orange" and continued to commit crimes, but later chose to marry and have children on his own. Although this is the original, I prefer the ending of the movie. The happy ending is just a happy, clichéd story, but Kubrick gave me a fable.
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