"I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man, because it's a true picture of him."
--Stanley Kubrick.

Yar-blockos!

I read somewhere that CLOCKWORK ORANGE, like most Kubrick films, "reveled in misanthropy." That's putting it mildly.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is like bamboo under the fingernails while your eyelids are propped open and a tube is being shoved into your penile shaft. That's getting a little closer.

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There was a ton of “alice Cooper” influence in Clockeworkl orange –
The codpieces, the top hats, the canes, the makeup, GUY’S NAME Alex.
Don’t knmwo whether this it true – CHECK SOURCES – but ALic Cooper maintains that.


Listening to Beethoven and partaking of the old ultra-violence.
Burgess's language is retained flavoring the film like sensual electric

Before Scorcese showed us how to juxtapose jolly songs over cruel punishment, here was Kubrick doing it with Singing in the Rain as Alex is kicking the hell out of the old man.

After this particularly brutal attack, Alex is busted, sent to a rehab facility which performs almost-as-brutal rehab measures on him, propping his eyelids open while forcing him to watch brutal videos that make him sick. CHECKALL THIS

desperate to find shelter after being cured, he takes refuge at th eold mana'shouse, where we see big David Prowse as the man's aide - the man inside the Darth Vader robes.

Alex is all of humanity – and the things he acts out – from petty crimes to rape and murder – are things which are written within our genetic code, a reflection of us.
We have to ask ourselves – are we subsuming those emotions because of society or fear of retribution or because we know it’s right to subsume them?

Repress
OR
ARE WE repressing those urges cos of the

THE LAW CHAPTER

Are we repressing because of the penalities or because it would benefit us to repress them? Of course, evolution is reciprocal altruism – actually benefiting you to help someone  else as individual and a by-product of species.

Speaks to all of us because all of us are – ALEX – all trying to keep our inner demons at bay