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vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 02:08 AM Oct 2021

Watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time

What the actual fuck? I feel like I watched an incels wet dream. That movie was beyond oddity to me. Normally I enjoy movies that are just fucking strange, but this was so strange I couldn't tell what was even happening anymore. Malcolm McDowell was fantastic though per usual.

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Watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time (Original Post) vercetti2021 Oct 2021 OP
What I was trying to say... PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #1
So basically its will over matter vercetti2021 Oct 2021 #3
Great first date movie unblock Oct 2021 #2
That or Delieverence vercetti2021 Oct 2021 #4
When I saw it pressbox69 Oct 2021 #13
I had a girlfriend who thought "Eraserhead" would be a good date movie. hunter Oct 2021 #12
I could never, ever, watch it again (saw it when it first came out.) fierywoman Oct 2021 #5
It took me too long to make a blacklist for movies Tetrachloride Oct 2021 #6
I became a professional classical musician -- so you can imagine the triggers when I fierywoman Oct 2021 #11
Saw it years ago and found it to be disgusting Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #7
I walked out on it after 20 minutes way back when. First and Tomconroy Oct 2021 #8
It is one of the strangest and most repelling movies. So much negativity. n/t ms liberty Oct 2021 #9
The scene that stands out for me Cartoonist Oct 2021 #10
I love Stanley Kubrick Xavier Breath Oct 2021 #14
I was about 20 when I first saw Clockwork Orange Martin Eden Dec 2021 #15
McDowell was great pressbox69 Dec 2021 #16

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
1. What I was trying to say...
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 02:27 AM
Oct 2021
What I was trying to say was that it is better to be bad of one’s own free will than to be good through scientific brainwashing. When Alex has the power of choice, he chooses only violence. But, as his love of music shows, there are other areas of choice. In the British edition of the book—though not in the American, nor in the film—there is an epilogue that shows Alex growing up, learning distaste for his old way of life, thinking of love as more than a mode of violence, even foreseeing himself as a husband and father. The way has always been open; at last he chooses to take it. He has been a sour orange; now he is filling with something like decent human sweetness.

From:
The Clockwork Condition
The author comments on his most famous book, in 1973.
By Anthony Burgess
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/the-clockwork-condition

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
3. So basically its will over matter
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 02:48 AM
Oct 2021

Like him doing evil and then learning outside of being brainwashed that love is a better sub?

hunter

(38,263 posts)
12. I had a girlfriend who thought "Eraserhead" would be a good date movie.
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 08:13 PM
Oct 2021

I should have run off screaming into the night. It would have spared us both a whole lot of misery later.

Suffered Clockwork Orange in a Film Studies class. The woman I liked to study with then, a friend but not a girlfriend, shared a six pack of beer before we got down to the homework.

That wasn't enough beer.

fierywoman

(7,641 posts)
11. I became a professional classical musician -- so you can imagine the triggers when I
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 01:52 PM
Oct 2021

played that music...

Cartoonist

(7,297 posts)
10. The scene that stands out for me
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 06:56 AM
Oct 2021

is when the main character puts himself in the role of a Roman soldier facilitating the crucifixion of Jesus.

Xavier Breath

(3,524 posts)
14. I love Stanley Kubrick
Fri Oct 29, 2021, 07:38 PM
Oct 2021

but I am not a big fan of this film. Still, I'd probably recommend it over the sheer boredom of Eyes Wide Shut.

Martin Eden

(12,801 posts)
15. I was about 20 when I first saw Clockwork Orange
Fri Dec 10, 2021, 08:28 PM
Dec 2021

My friends and I dropped same acid, and what a trip that movie was.

It helped that I had two years of Russian in high school, so I knew some of the words they used as slang.

I always thought Stanley Kubric was a master director, including this movie.

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