Greatness starts from the first shot

Birdie 2022-03-18 09:01:01

The greatness of this film starts from the first shot.
The staged works are as full of tension as Beethoven’s symphony. The two iconic lens symmetrical compositions reflect each other with incomparable playfulness. Kubrick has brought the music to the extreme, and the splendor of romanticism is used as The soil of the flower of evil, the tyrant dances among the flowers.

A Clockwork Orange is so confusing and makes it easy to compare it with "Guessing the Train" or even "Fight Club", especially "Guessing the Train". I once felt that the multiple angles and smiles of the two protagonists were so similar, and even the arrogant posture of squandering youth was comparable. However, the final outcome of a Clockwork Orange is the evil produced by the birth of free choice.

Kubrick’s interpretation of sex is crazier and weirder than Danny Boyle. A one-on-two scene in Alex’s bedroom is so shocking under the rapid symphonic rhythm. The robbery of the boy Billy gang on the stage is more like a sacrifice in a musical... The director has always directly but not revealed the position of sex in violence and crime, in a group of young people who defected from humanity.

However, this film was not as disgusting and horrible as previously imagined, and did not reach my current limit (weird, what is my limit...) On the contrary, it once made me feel the depression of crying——Alec After Si returned home, he was still a dutiful son after all. He held the package and stood motionless to accept the inadvertent scolding of a pseudo-moral person. He didn't know which movement of Beethoven's pain echoed in the helpless Alex's mind at this time?

Speed ​​and pleasure seem to be able to conceal the common evil. In fact, everyone is doing whatever they want. Alex is not the only one who "completely recovered" in the film.

I will watch it again.

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Extended Reading
  • Providenci 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    ① People in modern society are always receiving more refined surrender techniques. ② Ideology penetrates and corrodes every corner of human beings. ③The violence of free choice is better than the morality of losing freedom. ④ Human beings have created culture but they cannot make it survive. ⑤Inferior to space roaming slightly better than Dr. Qi Ai, Kubrick's despair of humans has never disappointed. ⑥Beethoven burst and can no longer look directly at the song in the rain.

  • Theresa 2021-10-20 18:58:14

    no way. . . Who told us to pretend to be a literary youth? . . like very much

A Clockwork Orange quotes

  • [Alex has just struck Dim on the legs]

    Dim: What did you do that for?

    Alex: For being a bastard with no manners, and not a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise, O my brother.

    Dim: I don't like you should do what you done, and I'm not your brother no more and wouldn't want to be.

    Alex: Watch that. Do watch that, O Dim, if to continue to be on live thou dost wish.

    Dim: Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. Well, it stands to reason I won't have it.

    Alex: A nozh scrap any time you say.

    Dim: Doobidoob. A bit tired, maybe. Best not to say more. Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right?

  • [listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]

    Alex: Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!