Clockwork: Artificial, mechanical and man made Orange:Organic and found in Nature A Clockwork Orange:Forcing something natural to function artificially
Thanks for this. Definitely felt the commentary regarding the power of “The State”. The violence of the individual was unacceptable so Alex had to be removed from society. His primal destructive urges were conditioned out of him, he was reformed and then returned to society. In his suppressed condition the primal destructive urge revisits him but this time he is not the purveyor of the urge, he is the victim. His former victims who voluntarily suppressed their primal urges now express them in ways society either allows or at least looks away from. The gang of old homeless people attack him as an affinity group protecting their interests. The former Druges turned police attack him with the power granted to them. The Writer is well to do and has influence in society. His attack was an attempt to further the writer’s influence against his social rivals. It’s through these attacks the primal urge finds its way back into him. When it is suppressed it lashes out be it through an instigator or former victim. It’s like the primal urge exists independent of any one individual, it’s ever present.
Great analysis, though out of all the videos I've watched on this topic, I've noticed that no-one's seemingly made the connection of the Nazis and Alex's wearing a red band around his arm whilst in gaol.
@@marklloyd9584 although I agree with the first comment personally, most critics felt that clockwork orange fell short and that it was Kubrick’s most problematic film
Alex is a wolf in a hen house, is only following his instincts. Is the only honest character in the story with perhaps the exception of the reverend who can be seen as the opposite as Alex. While Alex chooses to act in his nature without remorse, due to his young age, the reverend chooses to repress his own "evil" instincts and to do the "correct" thing, perhaps due to his more mature age. In the last chapter of the book a still young 18-year-old Alex evolves and naturally changes becoming a good citizen. Also in that last chapter, the droog with the beret, Pete, reappears to put an important piece of the puzzle fulfilling his mission and completing the perfect symmetry of the fable. In the movie, Pete is just a loose piece in the mechanism of this beautiful but artificial orange. Who is most horrendous? The natural Alex, and the rest of young delinquents, who follows his instincts creating pain around them as the cost for his own amusement? The sad lives of the rest of the perverted characters in the fable who lives in denial, lies, self-repression, and the pain that that choice of life causes? The artificial Alex who has no more freedom of choice to act on his own natural instincts becoming a caricature of a human being? And what drives the choices of lives of the perverted characters but fear, guilt, and superstitions? Sometimes entitlement and contrive ideas about how society has to be managed in the cases of the politics and the intellectuals who plots against the government who, both, get involved in petty machinations against each other without hesitating in breaking all his moral principles, destroying all their honesty and credibility in the process, becoming a mirror of each other and defeating his own primary purpose, devoid them both of meaning. the only thing that's left in this scenario is corruption. Alex is uncorrupted. It is not strange that we feel attracted by Alex in this scenario. It is not strange to sympathize with him while the rest to the characters cowardly delight on the tortures that society inflicts in the name of a corrupt justice. What, what separates Alex from the other young delinquents? Nothing aside that Alex is a natural alpha due to his skills, intellect, and sharp sensibility. They are uncorrupted too. Until they are not. Until they lose their innocence. When they become greedy they begin to reflect the corrupt society that surrounds them, starting a metamorphosis that culminates in the scene when they reappear as policemen working for the corrupt government in which point we can not distinguish them anymore from the rest of the society. In the book, Alex naturally changes and becomes a good citizen. But in the film, that change is not reflected and Alex manages to be accepted in society unadulterated. A corrupt society that seems to have been custom-built to embrace someone like him. A perfect playground for Alex to thrive and have fun. In the end, he is not best not worst than the rest of society, but he is honest. He is brave and embraces life and his nature, and unleashes its instincts unapologetically. While society suffers life doing the same harm in a pathetic effort to survive one sad day more. About the Ludovico technique is, really, an extension of jail. In jail, society takes apart individuals from society so they can not harm anyone outside the jail. Society cut the liberties of the individual, confining them in a closed space. Ludovico technique cut the liberties of the individual in his free will so they can live in society, creating these creepy monsters devoided of the ability to make their own decisions. What is most horrendous? If something, the film has to make us reflect on the humanity, helpfulness, and benefits of the prison system as it is built.
Apologies if this sounds pedantic, but a THEME is a complete thought - a logically coherent observation about human nature stated as an assertion. A theme cannot be a phrase like "good or evil," or stated as a question. It must be an assertion with which the viewer/reader can agree or disagree. This is because themes are inherently argumentative. Saying "life is like this" or "people are like this" is an assertion of universal truth, and all storytellers / filmmakers have, as at least one of their goals, to communicate what they believe to be these truths. Fortunately, your video gets it right at 6:47 -- although the theme of the film is not "SUMMED UP" here, it is given voice and STATED here. (That's actually a thing, called "stated theme." You see it in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, where Slim says in Ch 3, "Seems like everybody in the whole damn world is afraid of each other.") The theme of Clockwork is NOT "good and evil" or "free will". One possible theme statement could be something like this: "A society which robs its people of the right to make the wrong choice cannot call itself free." That fits the definition of a theme, just like the statement at 6:47 does. And of course, Burgess says it WAY more eloquently than I do.
The State prohibits the individual from committing offending acts, not because it wants to abolish them, but because it wants monopolize them - Sigmund Freud .
I don't know if self absorbed is fair to Alex's parents. Having seen many parents deal with delinquents I think they are just worn down. His father seems afraid of him and avoids him as much as possible.
I noticed that, too. His father is afraid of him and is cutting him loose without telling him directly, "Joe's rent is paid up through the next two years, we can't just kick him out now, can we?" I get the impression that Alex was released on very short notice and his parents are like, "Goddamn. We've finally accepted that he's gone away for life, we've made other arrangements and moved on, and suddenly he's back disrupting our lives again!" One thing I noticed about his parents is that they kicked him out softly (not "Get the F**k out!!", but essentially, "Sorry, there's no place for you here.") but when the prime minister is apologizing to his face and talking about a great wrong being forced on him, suddenly they're back. It really smacks of wanting nothing to do with him when he's a burden but when he's going to get a big payout tax-free from the state, suddenly they're like, "Of course we love you and want you back! All that unpleasantness before was just a misunderstanding, it was sudden and we were shocked!" Suddenly the new "son" Joe is out on his ass.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I loved your analysis of Spring Breakers and I'm so excited to see this analysis because this is one of my favorite films of all time.
The Chorus: "Is there any doubt that I have successfully hidden from you all information about what (which) things I dislike, and that this is the only source of my pride?" I'd bet that A Clockwork Orange is a cold war film mourning gambling (after it was made illegal in the Soviet Union [likely decades earlier]). About the chorus (in Greek plays): it's something which keeps track of everything which has unfolded but has no power (cannot punish) and is not the government or the leader in the story it must be there to ensure that being an audience member (audience members need to consensually be audience members) for the whole duration of the story is something which can be done while the audience members are *acting naturally* (so to speak). otherwise it's very weird for them to sit and observe the story (and what the fuck are they supposed to do while watching the play? whisper to each other? such questions can be transcended through the addition of a chorus. it's a very scientific thing because it includes consent) otherwise the audience members will not be able to keep track of the events naturally (their attention spans will be wasted and they won't understand the plot and it's obviously very bold to ask the theatre actors to "rewind").
I think the thing I love the best about this movie is that we are COMPELLED to identify with a violent, drugged out rapist as the "hero" - and as this video suggests, a Christ-figure martyr. In the film, Alex is subject to the whims of government's senses of "justice" and "right and wrong" -- he is jailed for his crimes, then rehabilitated using mind control, but then, when the political winds blow in the direction of free will as opposed to the "nanny state," Alex is cured, and free to pursue his fantasies of rape and murder. Happy ending. Roll credits. It's brilliant, because you as the viewer are F**KED no matter who you side with. Do you want to side with the poor, misunderstood rapist and murderer? Do you want to side with the corrupt justice system? Or do you want to side with the politicians who will screw you over in whatever way they choose, just to make sure they remain the party in power? THAT is the meaning of this film. The statement I get from Burgess / Kubrick is that humanity is hopelessly torn between being idiotic, mindless savages who have discovered joy in uninhibited hedonism including drugs, murder and rape, and being puppets of the state, forced to conform to their every whim (and those whims keep changing). It's deadly accurate in its own way, but there's this wickedly ironic sense of humor about the whole thing in that Alex's "cure" makes us feel happy for him and sick to our stomachs at the same time.
This is my favorite analysis of a clockwork orange. I can't believe I never saw the symbolism of purity and nature in milk, and the parallels between Alex and Jesus Christ. It seems so obvious now. Its surprising to me that no other analysis videos of A Clockwork Orange mention those things.
The final part of the film and Alex's little vision there illustrates Alex is back to his old self....but now celebrated by people of wealth and power.
You really have no idea why the book attracted Kubrick to make the film as a fallback to other works he ultimately would have preferred to make. But yeah...good try (lol). You do realise that this is the movie he made following 2001 right?.
Also 2 things when he passed out and fell on the spaghetti under his nose formed a toothbrush mustache with meat sauce similar to Hitler also when the police were beating him up, their numbers were 665 and 667 hes between them, 666
@@suppe3267 showing nazi footage durring alex's therapy hardly means the whole film contains nazi references. get your head of of your ass bro and stop imagining nazis everywhere
This movie questions greed, the use of violence as a mean to do "good" or "evil", the fact that society wants people to conform, free will, natural instincts versus morality, corruption.... It's such a good metaphor to explain to an extend the world that we live in, and to make us question our morals and own instincts. I still have to process it as I just finished it an hour ago, but now I understand why it is considered a classic.
I SAW THIS FILM IN 1971 AGED 14..IT WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE SKINHEAD CULTURE..I CANT REMEMBER ANYONE BEING INFLUENCED BY IT. THE EXCELLENT LOOK AT THE FILM FROM AN INTERLECTUAL VIEW WENT RIGHT OVER OUR HEADS AT THE TIME. I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THESE SKINHEAD/HOOLIGAN DAYS FOR ME. I WOULD SAY FOR MYSELF AND MATES IT WAS A QUESTION OF BOREDOM. LIKE THE VIOLENCE IN THE FILM.,, OUR VIOLENCE WAS THEATRICAL..
i think you've got it wrong - the film is more an attack on choice - an example of what is wrong with being given too much freedom - hence the violence and destruction now inherent in society. the bit about 'moral choice' etc just gets you to think about that a bit
Oh I understand it. I did when I was 9 when I snuck on to HBO to see it..Those were the days when there was only 13 channels on TV. I find it strange that millennials don't like or understand it today. Then again, I don't understand them either.
Can somebody explain me??? I'm still confused to the movie?? Sad is he really died in the end??.or he got.poisoned while he was eating in the hospital??? And did he really change to be a normal person??? Or still he is still the same?? Thanks
Funny how Alex blatantly hides his “masculinity” while he’s being reformed 7:02 - thanks for this analysis. I saw the film when I was 16, and…it was confusing.
You keep referring to the cups and bottles being shaped as phallic symbols. Aren’t all bottles and cups shaped like phallic symbols? As if a bottle would be shaped any other way? And what constituted the work out bar to be a phallic symbol?
Now imagine society doing this to innocent people who didn’t commit any crimes. It seems even against threats and harm, the opposite result would happen (the presumed soft becomes violent for freedom). Because then, the experiment would be extremely unjust & the innocent would have no choice but to choose whatever’s possible, ie. slavery & oppression (Haitian revolution, American slavery, Revolutionary war)
My understanding was the American version of the book, had the 20 chapters and the Euro version, 21 / 3 = holy But the american publishers did not like the fact that the 21st chapter. shows him old, and being abuse by people that look & acted as he did when young. it shows that punishment by prison / torture is ineffective, which undermine usa's police state.
I think the one part I disagree on is the nature of the "clockwork" concept. I think this is meant to drive home the nature of humanity: that we are mechanical constructs, incapable of making any true choices. If we make a "choice" it's simply a product of natural law acting in complex, but mechanical ways within our bodies.
I'm going off what Anthony Burgess wrote about what the title of his story meant. However, the great thing about art is it's subjective nature, so you maybe right.
@@jdanielzuk Someone showed you a graphic, R-rated film when you were a young child, and I, sitting at home discussing the film online with other adults, am the problem. Also, by discussing this film and trying to understand it, I'm perpetuating violent or sexually aggressive behavior at large? Those problems? Correct me if I misunderstood you, you didn't explain yourself.
@jdanielzuk Ah, okay. "Your disrespect is causing a problem" isn't addressing any grievance you've voiced here. What problem do you believe RUclips commenters are causing by discussing this film?
@@jdanielzuk Not at all. You're projecting your own, albeit traumatizing, experience of this specific movie onto anyone that even discusses it. This movie is rated R. Children should not be exposed to this content.
@@jdanielzuk Well that wasn't acceptable for him to do. It would have been much more appropriate to share or discuss this R-rated experience with an adult, like one can do in a RUclips comments section.
Clockwork: Artificial, mechanical and man made
Orange:Organic and found in Nature
A Clockwork Orange:Forcing something natural to function artificially
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It’s because man is violent by our nature
Thanks for this. Definitely felt the commentary regarding the power of “The State”. The violence of the individual was unacceptable so Alex had to be removed from society. His primal destructive urges were conditioned out of him, he was reformed and then returned to society.
In his suppressed condition the primal destructive urge revisits him but this time he is not the purveyor of the urge, he is the victim. His former victims who voluntarily suppressed their primal urges now express them in ways society either allows or at least looks away from.
The gang of old homeless people attack him as an affinity group protecting their interests.
The former Druges turned police attack him with the power granted to them.
The Writer is well to do and has influence in society. His attack was an attempt to further the writer’s influence against his social rivals.
It’s through these attacks the primal urge finds its way back into him. When it is suppressed it lashes out be it through an instigator or former victim. It’s like the primal urge exists independent of any one individual, it’s ever present.
Great analysis, though out of all the videos I've watched on this topic, I've noticed that no-one's seemingly made the connection of the Nazis and Alex's wearing a red band around his arm whilst in gaol.
i don’t think that was meant to reference nazis but ok
Will Fisher a red band on the left arm is ALWAYS a reference to nazis
@@pigeonboy7696 no its not, dumbass
That doesn't have anything to do with nazis
At least Fowl noticed the Nazi scene. Clearly the others did not, including the OP.
Wonderfully done bro, you cleared up the parts i didn't understand. I have more appreciation for the movie now thanks 😄
A masterpiece like most of Kubrick output
jdanielzuk more film critics, academics, and film theorists, art theorists etc must all be sad human beings,..
@@marklloyd9584 although I agree with the first comment personally, most critics felt that clockwork orange fell short and that it was Kubrick’s most problematic film
This did a much better job explaining what it all meant than the RUclips channel called What it all Meant. Thanks a bunch!
Alex is a wolf in a hen house, is only following his instincts. Is the only honest character in the story with perhaps the exception of the reverend who can be seen as the opposite as Alex. While Alex chooses to act in his nature without remorse, due to his young age, the reverend chooses to repress his own "evil" instincts and to do the "correct" thing, perhaps due to his more mature age. In the last chapter of the book a still young 18-year-old Alex evolves and naturally changes becoming a good citizen.
Also in that last chapter, the droog with the beret, Pete, reappears to put an important piece of the puzzle fulfilling his mission and completing the perfect symmetry of the fable. In the movie, Pete is just a loose piece in the mechanism of this beautiful but artificial orange.
Who is most horrendous? The natural Alex, and the rest of young delinquents, who follows his instincts creating pain around them as the cost for his own amusement? The sad lives of the rest of the perverted characters in the fable who lives in denial, lies, self-repression, and the pain that that choice of life causes? The artificial Alex who has no more freedom of choice to act on his own natural instincts becoming a caricature of a human being?
And what drives the choices of lives of the perverted characters but fear, guilt, and superstitions? Sometimes entitlement and contrive ideas about how society has to be managed in the cases of the politics and the intellectuals who plots against the government who, both, get involved in petty machinations against each other without hesitating in breaking all his moral principles, destroying all their honesty and credibility in the process, becoming a mirror of each other and defeating his own primary purpose, devoid them both of meaning. the only thing that's left in this scenario is corruption.
Alex is uncorrupted.
It is not strange that we feel attracted by Alex in this scenario. It is not strange to sympathize with him while the rest to the characters cowardly delight on the tortures that society inflicts in the name of a corrupt justice.
What, what separates Alex from the other young delinquents? Nothing aside that Alex is a natural alpha due to his skills, intellect, and sharp sensibility. They are uncorrupted too. Until they are not. Until they lose their innocence. When they become greedy they begin to reflect the corrupt society that surrounds them, starting a metamorphosis that culminates in the scene when they reappear as policemen working for the corrupt government in which point we can not distinguish them anymore from the rest of the society.
In the book, Alex naturally changes and becomes a good citizen. But in the film, that change is not reflected and Alex manages to be accepted in society unadulterated. A corrupt society that seems to have been custom-built to embrace someone like him. A perfect playground for Alex to thrive and have fun. In the end, he is not best not worst than the rest of society, but he is honest. He is brave and embraces life and his nature, and unleashes its instincts unapologetically. While society suffers life doing the same harm in a pathetic effort to survive one sad day more.
About the Ludovico technique is, really, an extension of jail. In jail, society takes apart individuals from society so they can not harm anyone outside the jail. Society cut the liberties of the individual, confining them in a closed space. Ludovico technique cut the liberties of the individual in his free will so they can live in society, creating these creepy monsters devoided of the ability to make their own decisions. What is most horrendous? If something, the film has to make us reflect on the humanity, helpfulness, and benefits of the prison system as it is built.
This is a great interpreation.
Apologies if this sounds pedantic, but a THEME is a complete thought - a logically coherent observation about human nature stated as an assertion. A theme cannot be a phrase like "good or evil," or stated as a question. It must be an assertion with which the viewer/reader can agree or disagree. This is because themes are inherently argumentative. Saying "life is like this" or "people are like this" is an assertion of universal truth, and all storytellers / filmmakers have, as at least one of their goals, to communicate what they believe to be these truths.
Fortunately, your video gets it right at 6:47 -- although the theme of the film is not "SUMMED UP" here, it is given voice and STATED here. (That's actually a thing, called "stated theme." You see it in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, where Slim says in Ch 3, "Seems like everybody in the whole damn world is afraid of each other.")
The theme of Clockwork is NOT "good and evil" or "free will". One possible theme statement could be something like this: "A society which robs its people of the right to make the wrong choice cannot call itself free." That fits the definition of a theme, just like the statement at 6:47 does. And of course, Burgess says it WAY more eloquently than I do.
The State prohibits the individual from committing offending acts, not because it wants to abolish them, but because it wants monopolize them - Sigmund Freud .
I don't know if self absorbed is fair to Alex's parents. Having seen many parents deal with delinquents I think they are just worn down. His father seems afraid of him and avoids him as much as possible.
I noticed that, too. His father is afraid of him and is cutting him loose without telling him directly, "Joe's rent is paid up through the next two years, we can't just kick him out now, can we?" I get the impression that Alex was released on very short notice and his parents are like, "Goddamn. We've finally accepted that he's gone away for life, we've made other arrangements and moved on, and suddenly he's back disrupting our lives again!"
One thing I noticed about his parents is that they kicked him out softly (not "Get the F**k out!!", but essentially, "Sorry, there's no place for you here.") but when the prime minister is apologizing to his face and talking about a great wrong being forced on him, suddenly they're back. It really smacks of wanting nothing to do with him when he's a burden but when he's going to get a big payout tax-free from the state, suddenly they're like, "Of course we love you and want you back! All that unpleasantness before was just a misunderstanding, it was sudden and we were shocked!" Suddenly the new "son" Joe is out on his ass.
why do you surpose there is so much use of white in this film? - the uniforms, the milk, the lighting? the phalis etc
I'm so glad I found your channel. I loved your analysis of Spring Breakers and I'm so excited to see this analysis because this is one of my favorite films of all time.
There are so many interpretations of this film. I loved your. Kubrick really knew how to pack a lot of concepts into a film.
The Chorus: "Is there any doubt that I have successfully hidden from you all information about what (which) things I dislike, and that this is the only source of my pride?"
I'd bet that A Clockwork Orange is a cold war film mourning gambling (after it was made illegal in the Soviet Union [likely decades earlier]).
About the chorus (in Greek plays):
it's something which keeps track of everything which has unfolded but has no power (cannot punish) and is not the government or the leader in the story
it must be there to ensure that being an audience member (audience members need to consensually be audience members) for the whole duration of the story is something which can be done while the audience members are *acting naturally* (so to speak). otherwise it's very weird for them to sit and observe the story (and what the fuck are they supposed to do while watching the play? whisper to each other? such questions can be transcended through the addition of a chorus. it's a very scientific thing because it includes consent)
otherwise the audience members will not be able to keep track of the events naturally (their attention spans will be wasted and they won't understand the plot and it's obviously very bold to ask the theatre actors to "rewind").
I think the thing I love the best about this movie is that we are COMPELLED to identify with a violent, drugged out rapist as the "hero" - and as this video suggests, a Christ-figure martyr. In the film, Alex is subject to the whims of government's senses of "justice" and "right and wrong" -- he is jailed for his crimes, then rehabilitated using mind control, but then, when the political winds blow in the direction of free will as opposed to the "nanny state," Alex is cured, and free to pursue his fantasies of rape and murder. Happy ending. Roll credits.
It's brilliant, because you as the viewer are F**KED no matter who you side with. Do you want to side with the poor, misunderstood rapist and murderer? Do you want to side with the corrupt justice system? Or do you want to side with the politicians who will screw you over in whatever way they choose, just to make sure they remain the party in power?
THAT is the meaning of this film. The statement I get from Burgess / Kubrick is that humanity is hopelessly torn between being idiotic, mindless savages who have discovered joy in uninhibited hedonism including drugs, murder and rape, and being puppets of the state, forced to conform to their every whim (and those whims keep changing). It's deadly accurate in its own way, but there's this wickedly ironic sense of humor about the whole thing in that Alex's "cure" makes us feel happy for him and sick to our stomachs at the same time.
This is my favorite analysis of a clockwork orange. I can't believe I never saw the symbolism of purity and nature in milk, and the parallels between Alex and Jesus Christ. It seems so obvious now. Its surprising to me that no other analysis videos of A Clockwork Orange mention those things.
The final part of the film and Alex's little vision there illustrates Alex is back to his old self....but now celebrated by people of wealth and power.
so is it now like he has become a thug of the state like all the people he encountered at the beginning?
My lord and saviour...I don't know where to start mate.
First, good job as far as showcasing one of Kubrick's lesser and unfortunate works. Secondly
You really have no idea why the book attracted Kubrick to make the film as a fallback to other works he ultimately would have preferred to make. But yeah...good try (lol). You do realise that this is the movie he made following 2001 right?.
This isn’t by any means a “lesser” work. It’s a masterpiece & one of his many. Like a lot of great art it was lost in its translation to many.
Also 2 things when he passed out and fell on the spaghetti under his nose formed a toothbrush mustache with meat sauce similar to Hitler also when the police were beating him up, their numbers were 665 and 667 hes between them, 666
Alex' prison number adds up to 22...................
I never knew although the film even has references to Nazi influence as well.
@@Thespeedrap no, it does not have nazi references. you sound like a paranoid libtard that see's nazi's everywhere
@@gordonhuskin7337 it literally has a bunch of nazi footage IN the movie, what are you on about? :p Also, the chief guard acts like a Hitler parody
@@suppe3267 showing nazi footage durring alex's therapy hardly means the whole film contains nazi references. get your head of of your ass bro and stop imagining nazis everywhere
This movie questions greed, the use of violence as a mean to do "good" or "evil", the fact that society wants people to conform, free will, natural instincts versus morality, corruption.... It's such a good metaphor to explain to an extend the world that we live in, and to make us question our morals and own instincts. I still have to process it as I just finished it an hour ago, but now I understand why it is considered a classic.
It was NOT banned in the UK,,
Stanley Kubrick had it withdrawn,,
The is a difference
But still a stunning movie
Beautiful analysis
When he claims that he was cured, that is the peak of the irony. He was not cured, he was enhanced to the next level of utility being.
Haven't seen the film and don't want to. I'll admire the art at a distance.
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I SAW THIS FILM IN 1971 AGED 14..IT WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE SKINHEAD CULTURE..I CANT REMEMBER ANYONE BEING INFLUENCED BY IT. THE EXCELLENT LOOK AT THE FILM FROM AN INTERLECTUAL VIEW WENT RIGHT OVER OUR HEADS AT THE TIME. I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THESE SKINHEAD/HOOLIGAN DAYS FOR ME. I WOULD SAY FOR MYSELF AND MATES IT WAS A QUESTION OF BOREDOM. LIKE THE VIOLENCE IN THE FILM.,, OUR VIOLENCE WAS THEATRICAL..
This is my favorite Kubrick movie
i think you've got it wrong - the film is more an attack on choice - an example of what is wrong with being given too much freedom - hence the violence and destruction now inherent in society. the bit about 'moral choice' etc just gets you to think about that a bit
@@jdanielzuk hahaha ummm ok i'll bite - in what way is kubrick 'attacking little girls' in making this film then??
I don't know if anyone noticed but, at certain times you can hear what sounds like the beginning theme from The Shining.
I was just thinking that!
I knew it bro fr
Organic on the outside mechanic on the inside
Woah! Delbert grady is in this movie.
Oh I understand it. I did when I was 9 when I snuck on to HBO to see it..Those were the days when there was only 13 channels on TV. I find it strange that millennials don't like or understand it today. Then again, I don't understand them either.
Can you do a requiem for a dream analysis video pleaaaaaaaaase
What needs to be explained there? Did I miss something? Lol
Great points, I feel like the films warning of the power of modern psychology and how it can be abused is worth noting
Great analysis...I expected more people to subscribe your channel
there are also parallels with orwell's 1984 about this
Great analysis 👌. Keep up the exceptional work✊.
Just realised that's Berkoff ( playing the violent cop )
Great and helpful analysis!
Great video. It makes me appreciate the film and book even more.
this was all really well explained. Thank you!
Lots of symbolism is this movie. Pyramid. All seeing eye. Orange in numerology/gematria is thirty-three.
The choice between good or evil is whats make a human be a human
Can somebody explain me??? I'm still confused to the movie?? Sad is he really died in the end??.or he got.poisoned while he was eating in the hospital??? And did he really change to be a normal person??? Or still he is still the same?? Thanks
He still the same that the twist that he has not changed and is gonna do exactly what he did before I dont think he would go back to his old gang tho.
Funny how Alex blatantly hides his “masculinity” while he’s being reformed 7:02 - thanks for this analysis. I saw the film when I was 16, and…it was confusing.
You keep referring to the cups and bottles being shaped as phallic symbols. Aren’t all bottles and cups shaped like phallic symbols? As if a bottle would be shaped any other way? And what constituted the work out bar to be a phallic symbol?
if this wasn't a stanley kubrick I'd probably thinking something like "it can't be that deep" to this analysis
What I understood a little was that they were subverting or denying Alex of human nature. Yes, he was wrong, but he became a puppet.
An amazing analysis Thank you!
I just finished the movie and can’t right here
What about the "DremCrum"? Or Adrenachrome? Written on the wall in the milk bar?
Lmao it was banned in the UK for 27 years. That just PROVES the point of the movie’s message even further. Society will do anything for control.
Now imagine society doing this to innocent people who didn’t commit any crimes. It seems even against threats and harm, the opposite result would happen (the presumed soft becomes violent for freedom). Because then, the experiment would be extremely unjust & the innocent would have no choice but to choose whatever’s possible, ie. slavery & oppression (Haitian revolution, American slavery, Revolutionary war)
My understanding was the American version of the book, had the 20 chapters and the Euro version, 21 / 3 = holy But the american publishers did not like the fact that the 21st chapter. shows him old, and being abuse by people that look & acted as he did when young. it shows that punishment by prison / torture is ineffective, which undermine usa's police state.
Lovely video!
Thanks for this review, glad I watched this as now know what the film is about. I get the meaning meant to this film , but it's not for me . 👍☺️
It's not a nanny state (the rightwing label for the welfare state), it is an authoritarian state. Otherwise, the analysis is fun.
Don’t read the book guys
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I Thought That Was Rubbish But I Time Go by Now IT'S make More sense
Like a walkinh zombie that dont have the ability to chose on right or wrong
Doesn't he say adrenochrome when he's drinking the milk?
Yes!!!
2.04, Nadsat, not Nasdat.
All I no is my Orange rawks...
I think the one part I disagree on is the nature of the "clockwork" concept. I think this is meant to drive home the nature of humanity: that we are mechanical constructs, incapable of making any true choices. If we make a "choice" it's simply a product of natural law acting in complex, but mechanical ways within our bodies.
I'm going off what Anthony Burgess wrote about what the title of his story meant. However, the great thing about art is it's subjective nature, so you maybe right.
@@jdanielzuk Someone showed you a graphic, R-rated film when you were a young child, and I, sitting at home discussing the film online with other adults, am the problem. Also, by discussing this film and trying to understand it, I'm perpetuating violent or sexually aggressive behavior at large? Those problems? Correct me if I misunderstood you, you didn't explain yourself.
@jdanielzuk Ah, okay. "Your disrespect is causing a problem" isn't addressing any grievance you've voiced here. What problem do you believe RUclips commenters are causing by discussing this film?
@@jdanielzuk Not at all. You're projecting your own, albeit traumatizing, experience of this specific movie onto anyone that even discusses it. This movie is rated R. Children should not be exposed to this content.
@@jdanielzuk Well that wasn't acceptable for him to do. It would have been much more appropriate to share or discuss this R-rated experience with an adult, like one can do in a RUclips comments section.
Love it
DRUG /d,r,oo,g -pronunciation /------in Russian means a friend. No two ways about it.
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Note to self Alex while he was in prison was becoming more behaved and starting acting in more civilised way
Analogous to the dystopian welfare culture, at it's peak, and it's subsequent rehab centers.
What the hell