Watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time

[vercetti2021]

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.

[PoliticAverse]

1. What I was trying to say...

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]

3. So basically its will over matter

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

[unblock]

2. Great first date movie

[vercetti2021]

4. That or Delieverence

Could you imagine that?

[pressbox69]

13. When I saw it

Deliverance was the co feature.

[hunter]

12. I had a girlfriend who thought "Eraserhead" would be a good date movie.

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]

5. I could never, ever, watch it again (saw it when it first came out.)

[Tetrachloride]

6. It took me too long to make a blacklist for movies

obviously, this was one of the first

[fierywoman]

11. I became a professional classical musician -- so you can imagine the triggers when I

played that music...

[Sherman A1]

7. Saw it years ago and found it to be disgusting

A complete waste of time.

[Tomconroy]

8. I walked out on it after 20 minutes way back when. First and

Last time I ever walked out on a movie.

[ms liberty]

9. It is one of the strangest and most repelling movies. So much negativity. n/t

[Cartoonist]

10. The scene that stands out for me

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

[Xavier Breath]

14. I love Stanley Kubrick

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]

15. I was about 20 when I first saw Clockwork Orange

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.

[pressbox69]

16. McDowell was great

in a role that James Cagney could have played if it was made 35 years earlier.