Clockwork orange?!
Question: Just watched this film for the first time the other night..extremly disapointed with it..the guy is extremly annoyin which im guessing is how he is meant to be protrayed? i didnt get the end how he is suddenly cured but that could be as i kinda gave up at that point!!!
Disucss anyone?
Answers: Just watched this film for the first time the other night..extremly disapointed with it..the guy is extremly annoyin which im guessing is how he is meant to be protrayed? i didnt get the end how he is suddenly cured but that could be as i kinda gave up at that point!!!
Disucss anyone?
I am not surprised you find Alex DeLarge, the protagonist and the film's narrator, annoying.
First Alex speaks "Nadsat," which is a language heavily influenced by Russian slang. This makes his narration hard to understand at times.
Second, he is a vicious thug, a sociopath gang leader whose interests include hallucinogen-laced milk ("moloko"), sadistic-violence, rape, murder --and the orchestral works of Ludwig van Beethoven (they help inspire his fantasies of sadistic violence, rape, murder, etc.).
Anyone might find such a young enemy of the people annoying.
Spoilers Ahead: Psychological conditioning, including psychological torture, is used on Alex to cure him of his violence. Inside, he remains a consciousless brute, but now not only his ability to initiate violence is disabled, but his ability to physically defend himself is also gone. He cannot even THINK about violence without becoming desperately, horribly sick to his stomach. As a nasty extra, his conditioning also makes him react that way to Beethoven.
Trapped and tortured by one of his victims (he is locked in a room and tormented with Beethoven's 9th Symphony) Alex attempts suicide by jumping out a window. He only succeeds in breaking most of the bones in his body.
We find Alex, presumably weeks later, bandaged and recuperating in a hospital. He is the guest of H.M Government, which is taking heat for the brutal "cure" that robbed him of his ability to act and think violently. He has apparently been UN-conditioned by Government doctors, because he can once again dream of violent rape (to the tune of "Ode to Joy") without becoming desperately ill.
This is a comedy, albeit a very black one.
Anthony Burgess, who penned the original novel, wrote A Clockwork Orange as social satire and as a warning against where a permissive society, influenced by the values of a junk popular culture, was going. Alex's world is one where decent people have become effete and defenseless, or --in their own way-- as vicious as the youth gangs that torment them.
the prison cured him
Yes, it's a bizarre movie! The character ticked me off from beginning to end, guess that's what the writer's intention was...
He's cured because he's forced to watch that video of people being killed,while listening to that music.
Then he relates pain or something to the classical music and doesn't want to hurt people anymore...
But,I wasn't paying attention the whole movie,and don't quite recall what happened.I remember in the end he jumped out the window,and was then...uncured?Or something.
Oh wait,didn't see the additional thing.the jump shocks his system or brain,and he reverts to his old ways..?
When Alex is in the hospital after his fall, he mentions he's dreamt that his head was being operated on whilst he was unconscious- This is inferring that he had been operated on by the government again.
Alex is not meant to be likeable - he is meant to be abhorrent.
The point of the story is about human nature and whether it should be made artifical even if it appears for the better. The fact that Alex is such an appaling character and his acts of violence are so outrageous ensures there is no sympathy for him as a person. The film fails a little in this compared to the book because Alex comes across as an anti-hero to some
Alex in the movie was purely evil. (as opposed to the book)
He enjoyed fantasizing about doing evil to his favorite music - Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
The government conditioned him so that he got violently ill whenever he contemplated causing harm to another person and as an unintended consequence also conditioned him against Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
His life turned to crap.
In the end he was able to blackmail the government and they operated on him returning him to his normal evil self.
Evil won in the end.
This film has won numerous awards and was nominated for 4 Academy Awards (incl. best picture). It is considered to be one of the most important movies of the 20th century.
Maybe you should give it another try, as it seems that a lot of people see more in the movie than you do.
You need to watch it again then he is cured way before he jumps out the window. He is cured in the treatment center in when they give him drugs and force him to watch all sorts of violence,and the drugs cure him. But the treatment also makes Beethoven music drive him insane when he hears it. That is why he jumps out the window. I love that movie.
He was brainwashed.
The prison doctors made him horribly aversive to violence, so much so that he couldn't defend himself. Not even when his old drogues, who are now cops, take him out into the middle of nowhere, beat the cr@p out of him and leave him for dead.
If you check it out, though, he is able to take advantage of the situation.
BTW, there are both X and R-rated versions. Look for the X-rated version, it's way funnier.
he is cured because he has grown up read the book you may ;like it better
I love that movie! I read the book too, but it was even more difficult to understand.