Clockwork Orange and Society

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2006)

I am not one of Kubrick's greatest fans but i respect people that serve art from an original perspective. Movies like clockwork orange are like free passport to immortality and i think that the director is succeeded in this particular matter. If we take artistic expression from a holistic and historical approach we will realize that art travels through time, but the masterpieces that will remain forever are the ones that manage to gather many subfields of art to the same melting pot giving a pure example of harmony. Cinema has that ability, a great director is able to combine photography, painting, literature, philosophy and music under the same roof. The percentage of deep knowledge in each subfield of art will increase the possibility of creating a masterpiece. In the particular movie the director proves that he is a great composer and a real scholar as he manages to express his deep knowledge in matters of social norms and instinctual struggle. The human behavior which is governed by dark powers that work underneath our consciousness is a basic issue that is pointed in the particular film. Even under captivity and under authoritative rules we are managing only to cover up and fix the surface and the expression of every behavior,the real cause of our behavior is something that we cannot easily understand. Law and punishment stands as a regulator and a barrier in order for such behaviors to remain in the dark. Such behaviors are purely unethical and cannot secure social stability.All rules have created in order to prevent the species from extinction.In clockwork orange obey on rules is something abstract, the starring character which is brilliant on the particular film but also in many others that i had the chance to see him loves violence and expresses his self in a way that only animals do and governed by a primitive behavior. In every society, persons like him are a threat and have to be punished in order to secure the safety of the whole. Although the extinction of the particular behavior has its own risks, a non aggressive person in a high competitive society is the weakest one and really soon the fittest gets him down if we want to use the words of Charles Darwin. Kubrick realizes the whole condition and creates it on the film,in some cases the major interest of art is to depict and describe a political or social condition by identifying itself with the particular condition or staying against it. In clockwork orange the director is describing everything with the most clear and realistic way without interfere with the judgment of the viewer. For some people the neutral perspective is wrong,for some others not, although the final judgment and the creation of emotions is based on millions of people so the wright or wrong does not fits here. Finally i would strongly reccomnet a masterpiece like that in a matter of a cultural and stylistic expression, the movie in a way depicts the whole fashion and the trends of the time with many psychedelic art elements that come along with the outbreak of drug culture in art and everyday life.