a clockwork orange

[elvis]

Love it? Hate it?

discuss.

 

[Kalam]

Very weird movie, but I'm a fan.

 

[JBeukema]

To be honest, I watched it years ago, and if there was much of a point, I missed it :/

 

[strollingbones]

loved it....it was cutting edge in its time...

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Good movie, better book.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

One of the greatest movies ever made! CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC!!

 

[editec]

Book AND movie..both brilliant.

 

[strollingbones]

i am not gonna go with the greatest movie ever.....

 

[Big Black Dog]

I watched this movie years ago and thought it was a pretty weird flick. It qualifies as one of the worst movies I have ever sat through. Never could figure out what it was supposed to be about. I give it 4 lame stars.

 

[Care4all]

I watched this movie years ago and thought it was a pretty weird flick. It qualifies as one of the worst movies I have ever sat through. Never could figure out what it was supposed to be about. I give it 4 lame stars.

well, i am in the same boat as you....saw it decades ago, don't remember much of nothing, other than i think the movie was over my head, I was clueless!

 

[strollingbones]

it was about the universal conflict...the rights of one over the general good of all.

 

[editec]

I watched this movie years ago and thought it was a pretty weird flick. It qualifies as one of the worst movies I have ever sat through. Never could figure out what it was supposed to be about. I give it 4 lame stars.

Its about free will v the state, BBD.

 

[Care4all]

it was about the universal conflict...the rights of one over the general good of all.

thank you! I was too young and politically naive at the time to catch that...!!!!!

 

[strollingbones]

geezes care...i was young when i saw it ..i think....i wonder now if i was ever really young...

 

[strollingbones]

i checked the release date...yep i was young....senior in high school...but then the group i ran with...were hardly naive or innocents...

 

[Big Black Dog]

Its about free will v the state, BBD.

Could have fooled me... At the time I thought it was a pretty violent movie with little or no social value. Guess I'm not as bright as you are. Thanks for making me aware of that!

 

[strollingbones]

it was a very violent movie for that time period and very sexual....the thugs were on a rampage ...the singing in the rain scene was one of particular violence...combined with the milk bar scenes...remember at the end when he is being forced to endure the behavior modification?

 

[Care4all]

i checked the release date...yep i was young....senior in high school...but then the group i ran with...were hardly naive or innocents...

my bf's college showed it on campus for a QUARTER... i was completely politically naive at the time and it could have been what we were smoking, since it was college? Who knows at this point?

care

 

[strollingbones]

mash was a radical movie of the times...i remember thinking we were such hot shit cause we saw mash...

boys in the band, prime cut, catch 22,

 

[editec]

Its about free will v the state, BBD.

Could have fooled me... At the time I thought it was a pretty violent movie with little or no social value. Guess I'm not as bright as you are. Thanks for making me aware of that!

The gratuitous violence served to make the individual's free will as ghastly as possible.

Alex was a selfish fucking nasty idiot.

The state he lived in was a socialistic nanny-state nightmare.

He rebelled against that state by being a violent thug. that was how he expressed his rights as an individual.

Remember how his former thug chums became policemen and then beat the crap out of him?

What do you suppose Burgess was telling the viewer (or reader) about his attitude about the state AND the individuals who comprise it?

Its a black book, folks. A deeply cynical view of the world.

Of course, I loved it.

It mirrors my own views about the constant battle between individual rights and the rights of the collective.\ to protect itself (and its members) from the rights of the individuals.