Original meaning of the title

Sam 2022-03-21 09:01:02

I have read a lot of commentaries, they all introduce the plot blindly, and explain the title first without considering the cultural background of the Chinese readers. So my comment only reproduces the explanation of the title. Clockwork is the clockwork of the clock, a device that allows the clock to run accurately, so if it walks (runs) as accurate as a clockwork, it means "the machine is working well" or "things are going in an orderly manner." There is also a similar word clockwork orange (a clockwork orange), which old Londoners use as a metaphor, always used to describe strange things. "He is as queer as a clockwork orange" means that he is beyond strange. Clockwork orange—organic on the outside, mechanical on the inside , is it orange on the outside ? Mechanical clockwork inside. The meaning of the film is that after receiving aversion therapy, the hero's virtues are not manifested autonomously, but are just a clockwork with a mechanical core and an orange appearance.

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Extended Reading
  • Chet 2022-03-24 09:01:02

    A clockwork orange: It is a person's right to choose to do evil or do good. When we saw the protagonist abruptly change from a demon to the poorest weak, I felt that the most terrifying political brainwashing was the most terrifying. Perhaps it was politics that caused the eruption of people's evil roots. Finally, the protagonist retrieves his imagination of sex in Beethoven's music. The devil must be destroyed, but he is given the freedom to choose to destroy. Evil is not terrible, the terrible thing is that you must be kind.

  • Destini 2021-10-20 18:58:13

    People are gods and demons. Animals are not good. Animals are only good and monsters.

A Clockwork Orange quotes

  • Georgie: [They've just stopped a band of tramps from beating up Alex] What's the trouble, sir?

    Alex: [looks up and recognizes them] Oh no!

    Dim: Well. Well, well. Well, well, well, well, if it isn't little Alex. Long time no viddy, droog. How goes?

    Alex: It's... it's impossible. I don't believe it.

    Georgie: Evidence of the old glazzies. Nothing up their sleeves. No magic, little Alex. A job for two, who are now of job age. The police.

  • [repeated line]

    Tramp: Could you spare some cutter, me brother?