Product: A Clockwork Orange (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Free Will Or Not
A Clockwork Orange deals profoundly with the concept of free will. Although it is a godless movie, I believe strongly that man was created in the image of an unbridled free-willed Deity, which means he has free-will too albeit much diminished from his Maker. Only G-d has the right totake away man's moral choice. Capital punishment therefore is immoral.Punishment in the form of diminishment of choice seems logical.Although the film eventually glorifies its victim salaciously, the point is made; behaviorism does not solve the evil within man.Furthermore, the film attacks its very foundation. Alex has to watch Nazifilms while ode to joy is playing on the soundtrack. A people that produce a Beethoven, give us Hitler. Art is worthless.