My best cinematic decision

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2014)

I always heard people comment about this movie. So, I decided to watch it. And it was one of the best cinematic decisions. I never really read the book published in 1962 by Anthony Burgess. But after seeing the movie, I really want to read it. But let's talk about this incredible movie. As you might notice, the choice of this adjective that I gave for the movie summarizes what I thought about it. The actors, the director, the psychological plot, the movie set... holy crap! Alexander Delarge (Malcolm McDowell) as the protagonist really made the difference. I cannot think about another actor in his place. Stanley Kubrick, the director of this work of art "A clockwork orange" where he worked several different techniques uniting them all in this show that even after all these years still is among the most remembered and exciting movies. The plot is about the life of a young man named Alexander DeLarge. He is the leader of a gang of thugs. In one of his crimes, he is arrested. It is from here that starts an interesting theme. Inside the prison, there are political and religious approaches.And then, he is used as a guinea pig of the project "healing of violence". I'm not sure about the name of this project. I guess it is The Ludovico treatment. But the point it is the treatment he is subjected to is so hard. He is forced to watch scenes of violence on TV with the soundtrack – the ninth symphony of Beethoven (his favorite song). Although he likes the images of forced sex and violence, he has a reflux. That is the therapy, reverse therapy. Themes such as violence, brainwashing, free will guide the movie. While I watched the treatment of Alex made me remember that Big Brother Brazil started recently for the 14ºth time in Brazil. I never enjoy this kind of TV show. But I know that a lot of people watch and enjoy it. TV has a great power on people and this scares me. The TV show Big Brother Brazil was created based on this book Nineteen Eight-four. This book of Eric Arthur Blair also approaches this subject. His book portrays the daily life of a totalitarian and repressive political regime of the year (1984). Eric shows how an oligarchical collectivist society is able to suppress anyone who opposes her. Here it brings a polemical subject that is worked in the movie by Kubrick: the influence that TV has on people. That's why I really enjoy this movie. There is a huge possibility of discussion of the film in various areas and fields. As the narrator of the plot is the main character himself (Alex DeLarge),we (readers) stay close to the character and inevitably we support him.We believe on the transgression of Alex. There is an interesting fact about the movie set. The Korova Milk Bar was baptized after the Russian word for cow and his sculptures were based on the work of sculptor Allen Jones. One of the wall paintings appears in the movie The Shining, 1980 (Another movie that I really enjoy.) In the scene where Alex talks with the priest about the Ludovico treatment, you can see prisoners marching in a circle in the courtyard. This scene makes association with the painting by Vincent Van Gogh, Prisoners exercising (1980). I recommend not watching only once, but several times and trying to understand the proposal of this fantastic drama. However, it is always good to remember the age group indicated for the film because there are several strong scenes.