A Clockwork Orange
"A Clockwork Orange" is a very different movie. It has everything a movie should have, but the plot is quite disturbing, especially for the time it came out. I have personally watched this film several times to find the meaning, and every time I watch it I come up with a different one. I am going to try to explain what this film contains as well as try to explain the plot. "A Clockwork Orange" is a story of a young man whose principle interests are rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven. It's about a teen named Alex (Malcolm McDowell) who torments people in Britain in the near future. He is then betrayed by his friends and caught by the police, after he had murdered somebody. He was sent to live in a Juvenile Facility where he had to endure a strange torture of being forced to watch horrific movies. When Alex gets home, all the people that had done him wrong had their revenge on a weak, recuperating Alex. I'll let you find out what happened at the end =). "A Clockwork Orange" is a cult classic. It was Stanley Kubrick's 2nd Critically acclaimed film (the first being "Spartacus"). I was first interested in the book by Anthony Burgess (which in my opinion, is equally as good as the movie).
Another is the theme. The theme of "A Clockwork Orange" is very hard to explain. However, it still has one if not many. As I stated before, every time I watch it I get something else out of it. That could be why it is such a good film. The first time I watched the movie I found that it was trying to say that not every cure is a good one. The second time I found that if you change your friends may look at you different. I think that the theme may be different to everybody. This film says a lot about it's culture and time period. It was needed by society to show them that things that control your mind aren't always the best. I think that society rejected because of the way it was brought to them. "A Clockwork Orange", when it first came out, was rated NC-17 (X) because of rape, violence, and nudity. I believe that for it's time this movie was rated very fairly. Now the movie is rated R. The movie is about a gang that goes around, kill, rape, and vandalize. Without the sexual content and violence, the movie wouldn't be a movie. All of these things are needed to establish a plot. I think this movie is perfect the way it is because it builds the characters and plot so well that it would be hard to edit anything out . And it wouldn't follow the book as well if you cut parts of the movie out. The film was so well done that someone wants to remake it. This film is definitely a science-fiction film for a few reasons. The setting is in the future. You can tell this because they say they are driving a classic '99 Durango, 1999 is done with and for something to be a classic it has to withstand some time. The doctor uses a special drug to fix Alex's mind and mind control is always part of science-fiction. The way things are done and look also give it a science fiction look and feel. I feel that this film is a classic film. The plot is one that still e
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