[ARCHIVED THREAD] - A Clockwork Orange (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/18/2011 9:21:18 PM EDT
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What's up with the chick with all the cats?
What a retarded flick! 
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It's pretty cool the first time you watch it and realize towards the end that you're actually rooting for Alex to break free of the "treatment" and return to being a violent sociopath. Brilliant. It is a movie unlike any other. I'm glad you were able to enjoy it. |
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Read the book, as others have stated. Anthony Burgess (author of the book) was a lapsed Catholic. This book (and movie) is all about his question of Free Will. Everyone has the ability to choose to do good or evil. If you can only do good––there is no choice but to do good––are you really good? Since your Free Will has been taken away, doesn't that make you less than human, like a biological robot? (Biological robot= human on the outside, machine on the inside= a 'clockwork orange'––an orange with mechanical parts on the inside) Free Will is what makes us human, and so if it is taken away––even for the so-called Good of Society––do we move forward as a human race? Or does that pull us backwards, making us less human? Is your Free Will being taken away (making you a Clockwork Orange) better, or worse than, the ability to choose to be bad, the choice to do evil? This is what the book (and movie) is about. |
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I caught the last 2/3 of it last night. Never saw it before and had really no idea what I was watching.
If this board says it is good, (American Psycho, 2001, and so on) I will give it another try. I typically like the movies you guys and gals suggest. It was also late and I wasn't in movie mode I guess. I will try harder......the giant china penis was a bit I have to say....as well as cat lady's art.....
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| That movie is great. It's funny how in the beginning Alex is just rampaging the neighborhood and you just go along for the ride, you know it's wrong but it seems fun somehow, how about his room decor ? The four Jesus's dancing can can style ! It's sad when they beat up the bum but there's no remorse when they take on the other gang.The surprise visit to the couple and the whole "Singing In The Rain" routine. And then the ultimate backstab from his own gang. That movie is one big roller coaster ride.My favorite Alex quote " Devil Trumpets and Angel Trombones You Are Invited " and the old "In and Out "Malcolm McDowell never topped that role even in Caligula. What's funny is seeing him in that respectable role on Entourage acting like an old prick. |
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Read the book, as others have stated. Anthony Burgess (author of the book) was a lapsed Catholic. This book (and movie) is all about his question of Free Will. Everyone has the ability to choose to do good or evil. If you can only do good––there is no choice but to do good––are you really good? Since your Free Will has been taken away, doesn't that make you less than human, like a biological robot? (Biological robot= human on the outside, machine on the inside= a 'clockwork orange'––an orange with mechanical parts on the inside) Free Will is what makes us human, and so if it is taken away––even for the so-called Good of Society––do we move forward as a human race? Or does that pull us backwards, making us less human? Is your Free Will being taken away (making you a Clockwork Orange) better, or worse than, the ability to choose to be bad, the choice to do evil? This is what the book (and movie) is about. Well said. |
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Read the book, as others have stated. Anthony Burgess (author of the book) was a lapsed Catholic. This book (and movie) is all about his question of Free Will. Everyone has the ability to choose to do good or evil. If you can only do good––there is no choice but to do good––are you really good? Since your Free Will has been taken away, doesn't that make you less than human, like a biological robot? (Biological robot= human on the outside, machine on the inside= a 'clockwork orange'––an orange with mechanical parts on the inside) Free Will is what makes us human, and so if it is taken away––even for the so-called Good of Society––do we move forward as a human race? Or does that pull us backwards, making us less human? Is your Free Will being taken away (making you a Clockwork Orange) better, or worse than, the ability to choose to be bad, the choice to do evil? This is what the book (and movie) is about. Well said. Yup. "Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?" As has been suggested, read the book my droogies! 
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That movie is great. It's funny how in the beginning Alex is just rampaging the neighborhood and you just go along for the ride, you know it's wrong but it seems fun somehow, how about his room decor ? The four Jesus's dancing can can style ! It's sad when they beat up the bum but there's no remorse when they take on the other gang.The surprise visit to the couple and the whole "Singing In The Rain" routine. And then the ultimate backstab from his own gang. That movie is one big roller coaster ride.My favorite Alex quote " Devil Trumpets and Angel Trombones You Are Invited " and the old "In and Out "Malcolm McDowell never topped that role even in Caligula. What's funny is seeing him in that respectable role on Entourage acting like an old prick. If I recall correctly, in the book those 2 girls were very jailbait and he raped the shit out of them when he got them home. In the movie it was speeded up and we don't really know what's going on 'cept some in out, in out. |
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It's pretty cool the first time you watch it and realize towards the end that you're actually rooting for Alex to break free of the "treatment" and return to being a violent sociopath. Brilliant. I was hoping they'd torture him and then slit his throat but that was just me. I didn't care much for the movie. I won't say it was crap... it just didn't appeal to me. Very long and boring. Though I can't stop from quoting the ol' in and out now and then. 
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