Clockwork Orange

Clockwork Orange

Introduction

It seems a sort of violent philosophy that Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange) wants to tell about the violence of humans. Despite being an adaptation of the book by Anthony Burgess (unfilmable), it was only with the Stanley Kubrick film, which he adapted, the theme gained cultural impact on the market. At the time of launching the work scared distributors, was banned from being shown in many countries and was praised by critics as well as by other withered. Kubrick knew what he was doing when he decided to direct the incredibly difficult literature Burgess. The result? A masterpiece of a director and a leading representative works of film culture (Bouton, 2007).

Discussion

The issue of violence in the film is naturalized interpreted both as social and psychological. Enters into the mind of the subject sociopath, angry with everything and cynical with the reasons that lead to beating, raping and collide with social rules. Alex Malcolm McDowell is an amoral being who does not respect and unaware of the minimum and convenient rules of society. Your character is a provision for what would now be the subject of intense and heated discussions about youth violence and breach of moral rules, social and individual. So the film is so used when the subject is violence, further deepening the sphere of philosophy, created by the individual under pushover (Bouton, 2007).

Alex is a young offender who goes out with his gang to terrorize the nights beggars, raping married women beating their husbands and in between these sociopaths orgies, group rests in a bar drinking milk junkie emerging from the breasts of a doll metamorphic. After the activities, the young leader of the gang back home to listen to Beethoven, care for your pet snake and revel in the lies in order to miss school, fool your guardian criminal again and prepare for new sexual adventures with any women he feels the need to own (Strange, 2010).

However, on one of these adventures, Alex, betrayed by his fellow conceptual ultra violence, is arrested in a house in which invaded and enjoyably murderous the housewife. It caught fleeing police. In prison converts to the religion, and becomes a sort of apprentice and respectful good manners, by the influence of the priest / pastor / overseer (forever) site. When you have the opportunity to participate in a test that brings back the moral concepts and mental health of patients infected by the disease of social revolt and “defective conscience” grab the chance to heal and get out of that web of psychological repression. However, the treatment he goes through is much more violent than any of its acts committed before, which led him to be in that situation. The sequences of the "cinema moral" is fantastic, and the proposal to show that healing, the “theater of temptation”, is extraordinarily efficient in terms identify, through the meanings of the sick person, return, or restructuring of its concepts as a person ready to reside in the social environment ...