Random thoughts on "clockwork orange"

Kristy 2022-04-22 07:01:01

Old Londoners like to use the term 'clockwork orange' as a metaphor for the insanely weird.

And after watching the movie, I also fell into a long silence and confusion.

In this story, both the characters and the plot are as bizarre as a clockwork orange.

The first point is about pure evil. For many years, the evil I feared most and feared the most was Alex's unreasonable malice, but when a government with ulterior motives does not care whether Alex and the prisoners are cured, it only cares whether this action can When I brought myself one more vote, I realized that this is the greatest evil expressed by A Clockwork Orange. This evil is more monstrous and evil than pure instinctive evil.

The second is about psychology. The ethical principles of psychological research are inevitably involved in the film: "When scientificity and ethics are in conflict, the ethics should be guaranteed first, and the research should be abandoned or other methods that do not violate ethics should be used." Alex was injected with the order Disgusting drugs, while being forced to watch videos of bloody violence, after repeated repetitions, the inmates associate the violence with feelings of nausea. The conflict between freedom and institutions is easily reminiscent of the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" released in the United States four years later.

The third is about perception. In a word, Lao Ku usually doesn't treat the audience as human beings. Several times during the viewing process, I almost couldn't control my hand that wanted to turn off the player. So much so that I began to wonder if it took me a long time to get used to old British movies.

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Extended Reading
  • Dessie 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    I am completely healed! I can't count how many times I've watched it, but in a sense, this is my movie bible~

  • Leda 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    The somewhat post-modern picture style and the BGM of the classical soundtrack make people shudder. The scene where the eyeballs are fixed is really meaningful. In Kubrick's hands, the orange of Clockwork Orange is magnified, and it is given a philosophical society thinking about violence and evil, which is indeed the style of Kubrick. Alex was not relieved in Beethoven's music, and those big eyes still made people panic.

A Clockwork Orange quotes

  • Frank Alexander: [hears knocking on the door] Who on Earth could that be?

    Julian: I'll see who it is.

    [goes to the front door]

    Julian: Yes, what is it?

    Alex: [barely audible] Help... please... help... help.

    Julian: [opens the door and Alex collapses at the doorway. He carries Alex into the house] Frank, I think this young man needs some help.

    Frank Alexander: [surprised by Alex's poor condition] My God! What happened to you, my boy?

    Alex: [voice-over] And would you believe it, o my brothers and only friends. There was your faithful narrator being held helpless, like a babe in arms, and suddenly realizing where he was and why home on the gate had looked so familiar, but I knew I was safe. For in those care-free days, I and my so-called droogies wore our maskies, which were like real horror-show disguises.

    Alex: [nervous] Police... ghastly horrible police... they beat me up, sir.

    [sees Frank has a foul look on his face, apparently not believing him]

    Alex: The police beat me up, sir.

    Frank Alexander: [excited] I know you!

    [pauses]

    Frank Alexander: Isn't it your picture in the newspapers? Didn't I see you on the video this morning? Are you not the poor victim of this horrible new technique?

    Alex: [relieved] Yes, sir! That's exactly who I am and what I am, sir. A victim, sir!

    Frank Alexander: Then, by God, you've been sent here by providence! Tortured in prison, then thrown out to be tortured by the police. My heart goes out to you, poor, poor boy. Oh, you are not the first to come here in distress. The police are fond of bringing their victims to the outskirts of this village. But it is providential that you, who are also another kind of victim should come here.

    Frank Alexander: [finally remembering Alex's state] Oh, but you're cold and shivering. Julian, draw a bath for this young man.

    Julian: Certainly, Frank.

    Alex: [as he is being carried off by Julian] Thank you very much, sir. God bless you, sir.

  • Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast.

    Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.