Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Unlike another sinny I've viddied
When I was little and first heard of "A Clockwork Orange" I asked my mother what it was about. She simply responded "Some Scottish kids who go around raping and killing all night." What an indecent synopsis. While on the surface I guess one could concoct a view of the film/book this way. However, if really watched-casting aside the relentless sex and violence, which some see as gratuitous but I see as essential-you can see it is much more. Watching such a film is even more disturbing then initially thought. Reason being, the world formulated in fifty years ago isn't that far away from ours today. That's what Bradbury did and I fear with my interiority that it is beginning to happen with Burgess's forecast. The government is starting to clench the citizens by the neck and the crime is despicable. I can only hope that we couldn't reach limits of rehabilitation that is conjured up in the film/book. The fact that Burgess could write a novel that so depicts our current society caricatured is a disturbing thought; ten fold that of the images presented by Kubrick's beautiful cinematography, even the scene of Alex viewing the films. I think most the controversy based off of the film/book is based off of fear rather than thoughts of gratuity, fear that our society has reached such horrible points.