The future trilogy is playing!

Ken 2022-04-19 09:01:01

As the last film of the future trilogy, it has a history of nearly 50 years, and its shooting techniques and plot themes are still instructive today.

The two long shots of Kubrick staring at the beginning and the end, the central composition is very oppressive, and let me immediately enter the plot. In the beginning of the fight scene, the shaking of the camera lens creates a fierce and tense atmosphere; the soundtrack in the film is also very interesting, classical The music and action scenes should be the benchmark in the classics. The combination of Bei Jiu and the Nazis is so charming. When Alex was playing as a writer, Kubrick used the original happy and harmonious Rain Song to accompany it (it seems that Alex himself is the actor himself. I feel like watching people commit crimes in beautiful music, this contrast gives people a sense of moral unease.

When it comes to the plot, there are a lot of sexual metaphors and Easter eggs from Beethoven, as well as Kubrick's private eggs (2001 A Space Odyssey poster). The choice of freedom and politics in the film has been deepened with the passage of time, and I have nothing to say. Of course, since it is an adaptation, there are some things that don't match the original work. According to the beginning of the original work, there are only three people in Alex's Gang of Four who have a story. The subject matter is immediately elevated. Overall it's a good movie and worth watching.

(The short review is actually overly wordy... I'm so sorry Kubrick for such a film review.)

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Extended Reading
  • Destin 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    The best Kubrick in my opinion. From the beginning to the end, the colorful shocks, the exaggerated sets of works of art, the symphonies of Beethoven, and the narration of the stage play make the whole film seem alternative, and this alternative represents the madness and uninhibitedness of the future society. The story is actually not complicated, but the rich audio-visual language and the full-fledged video style make it interesting to watch, revealing the scars of society and the darkness of the government from personal healing. So far, the "Future Trilogy" has been read, and in my personal eyes, Clockwork Orange > Strange Love > 2001.

  • Edison 2021-10-20 18:58:07

    Kubrick is a real bastard, but also a genius.

A Clockwork Orange quotes

  • Alex: Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.

  • [first lines]

    Alex: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.