What is the movie "A Clockwork Orange" about?!
Question: What is the movie "A Clockwork Orange" about!?
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Set in 1995 England, the film follows the life of a young man named Alex DeLarge, whose pleasures are classical music (most especially Beethoven), rape, and ultraviolence!. He is leader of a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie and Dim), whom he refers to as his "droogs" (from the Russian word друг meaning "friend" or "buddy")!. Alex narrates most of the film in "Nadsat"; the fractured, contemporary adolescent argot comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang!. Alex is irreverent and abusive of others; he lies to his parents to skip school and has an expensive stereo sound deck blasting a classics recordings collection!.
After drinking narcotic-laden milk at the Korova Milk Bar, Alex and his droogs ridicule and beat an old drunken vagrant under a motorway flyover!. They then proceed to a run-down theater, where a rival gang led by Billy Boy are about to rape a woman!. A fight between the two gangs ensues; Alex and his droogs emerge victorious and leave before the police arrive!. Alex (with the gang) steals a "Durango 95" sports car (which is actually an Adams Probe 16[1]) for a reckless drive into the countryside!. They then perpetrate a home invasion, beating a reclusive writer named Mr!. Alexander and raping his wife while singing and dancing to "Singin' in the Rain"!.
While skipping school for the day, Alex picks up two teenyboppers in a record shop, takes them home, and engages in a threesome with them to the strains of the William Tell Overture!. (In 1971, there was journalistic controversy about whether this scene constituted "obscenity" or not!.[citation needed]) Alex soon learns that his droogs are not satisfied having him as their leader!. Although he is slightly threatened, he seemingly deals with the problem by kicking two of the droogs (Georgie and Dim) into a decorative urban pool as they walk along the "flat block marina" and slashes the back of Dim's hand, demonstrating his leadership and unwillingness to be overthrown!.
That night, Alex is caught during a burglary, a mutinous set-up by his ill-contented droogs!. Alex breaks into a woman's house and uses a phallic sculpture to bludgeon the owner, unintentionally killing her!. Alex is then attacked by Dim, hit in the head with a milk bottle and left helpless at the scene of their crime to be caught by the police!. At the police station, he learns that his robbery victim has died, thus making him a murderer!. He is sentenced to 14 years in prison!. After serving two years, he is offered a chance at parole if he submits to the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government to solve societal crime!. The technique involves being exposed to extreme depictions of on-screen violence under the influence of a nausea-inducing drug!. Alex is unable to look away from the screen and has his head held immobile and each of his eyes held open by small specula!. Consequently, Alex is rendered incapable of violence, even in self-defense, and also incapable of touching a naked woman during a test of the technique!. In an unintended side effect, the technique has also rendered him unable to listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the background score used in one of the films that is a montage of images of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis; the scientist-doctors apologize: "It can't be helped", saying that musical aversion is "the punishment element, perhaps!?"
Once Alex has successfully completed the therapy, he returns home, joyful at the thought of starting afresh!. However, he is unpleasantly surprised by the discovery that his parents have rented out his room to a new young man, essentially "replacing" their son!. With no place to go, stripped of the ability to fight back, Alex despondently wanders London!. He soon encounters the vagrant from the beginning, who immediately recognizes him and attacks Alex with his street friends!. Two policemen break up the scene, who turn out to be two of his former droogs, Georgie and Dim!. They take him into the outskirts of town, where they beat him and half drown him!.
Alex wanders through the woods and unwittingly arrives upon the house of the writer whose wife he had raped and beaten earlier in the film!. Mr!. Alexander was apparently crippled in the initial assault, and is now confined to a wheelchair!. Due to Alex's having worn a mask during the earlier assault, Mr!. Alexander does not recognize him, nor realize that Alex was his assailant!. However, he does recognize Alex's case from the newspapers, and takes him in, with the intention of using him as a political tool to shame the government!. Mrs!. Alexander had since died due to an illness, which her widowed husband believes was brought on by the rape, and he is now attended by a large, muscular manservant named Julian!. Mr!. Alexander soon learns who he is dealing with upon hearing Alex sing "Singing in the Rain" while in the bath, which was the same song he sung while raping his wife!. Subsequently, he drugs Alex and attempts to drive him insane with an electronic version of the Ninth Symphony (Second Movement) played at full volume below Alex's locked bedroom!. The boy attempts suicide by jumping out a window, but he survives!.
During his long recovery in the hospital, Alex talks about half remembered dreams he has of people "messing about with me gulliver (Nadsat for 'head')"!. It is unclear if Alex is remembering his old treatment, or is undergoing new treatment to turn him back to what he was!. Soon he is visited by the Minister of the Interior who earlier had personally selected Alex for the Ludovico treatment!. He apologizes to Alex for the treatment's consequences, saying he was only following his staff's recommendations!. He ultimately rewards Alex's gesture of support by presenting him with an enormous stereo playing the Ninth Symphony's finale (Fourth Movement), to which Alex listens with no physical reaction!.
The government has promised Alex a job if he agrees to campaign on behalf of the ruling political party, whose public image has been severely damaged by Alex's attempted suicide!. At the film's end, Alex narates: "I was cured, all right!.!.!.", implying the Ludovico treatment has been reversed and he is now able to exert his freedom of choice!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
After drinking narcotic-laden milk at the Korova Milk Bar, Alex and his droogs ridicule and beat an old drunken vagrant under a motorway flyover!. They then proceed to a run-down theater, where a rival gang led by Billy Boy are about to rape a woman!. A fight between the two gangs ensues; Alex and his droogs emerge victorious and leave before the police arrive!. Alex (with the gang) steals a "Durango 95" sports car (which is actually an Adams Probe 16[1]) for a reckless drive into the countryside!. They then perpetrate a home invasion, beating a reclusive writer named Mr!. Alexander and raping his wife while singing and dancing to "Singin' in the Rain"!.
While skipping school for the day, Alex picks up two teenyboppers in a record shop, takes them home, and engages in a threesome with them to the strains of the William Tell Overture!. (In 1971, there was journalistic controversy about whether this scene constituted "obscenity" or not!.[citation needed]) Alex soon learns that his droogs are not satisfied having him as their leader!. Although he is slightly threatened, he seemingly deals with the problem by kicking two of the droogs (Georgie and Dim) into a decorative urban pool as they walk along the "flat block marina" and slashes the back of Dim's hand, demonstrating his leadership and unwillingness to be overthrown!.
That night, Alex is caught during a burglary, a mutinous set-up by his ill-contented droogs!. Alex breaks into a woman's house and uses a phallic sculpture to bludgeon the owner, unintentionally killing her!. Alex is then attacked by Dim, hit in the head with a milk bottle and left helpless at the scene of their crime to be caught by the police!. At the police station, he learns that his robbery victim has died, thus making him a murderer!. He is sentenced to 14 years in prison!. After serving two years, he is offered a chance at parole if he submits to the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government to solve societal crime!. The technique involves being exposed to extreme depictions of on-screen violence under the influence of a nausea-inducing drug!. Alex is unable to look away from the screen and has his head held immobile and each of his eyes held open by small specula!. Consequently, Alex is rendered incapable of violence, even in self-defense, and also incapable of touching a naked woman during a test of the technique!. In an unintended side effect, the technique has also rendered him unable to listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the background score used in one of the films that is a montage of images of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis; the scientist-doctors apologize: "It can't be helped", saying that musical aversion is "the punishment element, perhaps!?"
Once Alex has successfully completed the therapy, he returns home, joyful at the thought of starting afresh!. However, he is unpleasantly surprised by the discovery that his parents have rented out his room to a new young man, essentially "replacing" their son!. With no place to go, stripped of the ability to fight back, Alex despondently wanders London!. He soon encounters the vagrant from the beginning, who immediately recognizes him and attacks Alex with his street friends!. Two policemen break up the scene, who turn out to be two of his former droogs, Georgie and Dim!. They take him into the outskirts of town, where they beat him and half drown him!.
Alex wanders through the woods and unwittingly arrives upon the house of the writer whose wife he had raped and beaten earlier in the film!. Mr!. Alexander was apparently crippled in the initial assault, and is now confined to a wheelchair!. Due to Alex's having worn a mask during the earlier assault, Mr!. Alexander does not recognize him, nor realize that Alex was his assailant!. However, he does recognize Alex's case from the newspapers, and takes him in, with the intention of using him as a political tool to shame the government!. Mrs!. Alexander had since died due to an illness, which her widowed husband believes was brought on by the rape, and he is now attended by a large, muscular manservant named Julian!. Mr!. Alexander soon learns who he is dealing with upon hearing Alex sing "Singing in the Rain" while in the bath, which was the same song he sung while raping his wife!. Subsequently, he drugs Alex and attempts to drive him insane with an electronic version of the Ninth Symphony (Second Movement) played at full volume below Alex's locked bedroom!. The boy attempts suicide by jumping out a window, but he survives!.
During his long recovery in the hospital, Alex talks about half remembered dreams he has of people "messing about with me gulliver (Nadsat for 'head')"!. It is unclear if Alex is remembering his old treatment, or is undergoing new treatment to turn him back to what he was!. Soon he is visited by the Minister of the Interior who earlier had personally selected Alex for the Ludovico treatment!. He apologizes to Alex for the treatment's consequences, saying he was only following his staff's recommendations!. He ultimately rewards Alex's gesture of support by presenting him with an enormous stereo playing the Ninth Symphony's finale (Fourth Movement), to which Alex listens with no physical reaction!.
The government has promised Alex a job if he agrees to campaign on behalf of the ruling political party, whose public image has been severely damaged by Alex's attempted suicide!. At the film's end, Alex narates: "I was cured, all right!.!.!.", implying the Ludovico treatment has been reversed and he is now able to exert his freedom of choice!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It has to do with the violence that people can inflict on others but the state does not have the right to brainwash you into submission!. You can be educated to see the error of your ways but you should not be subjected to torture to change your behavior!. Quite a fantastic movie but a little hard to watch!. Definitely not for kids!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It's about a society where violence is out of control!. A young offender is convicted and sentenced to watching constant violence!. At the time the story was written there was a pop psy theory that if you "overdosed" a person on some behavior they would avoid that behavior in the future!. (Of course the theory is wrong; repeated exposure leads to acceptance and even indulgence!.) Anyhow the thug now becomes violently ill when exposed to violence!.
The story continues beyond that point!. The main question is how to deal with violence in society!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The story continues beyond that point!. The main question is how to deal with violence in society!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Based on a novel of the same name by Anthony Burgress, it's about the leader of a British "rape gang" that is captured and put through a form of aversive therapy in order to make him ill when he contemplates or begins to enact violence!. The title refers to the duality of the characters and questions of free-will vs pre-destination, of choice vs deterministic reactions!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It depends on how you interpret it!. Basically it focuses on how the government controls our minds!. This guy who is a rebel and gets into trouble a lot ends up going to jail and the government use all these crazy techniques to change his behavior!. They brainwash him!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It is a testimony of how politicians will deal with violent criminals and how the justice system will pander to the criminals without regard to their crimes or the affects of their crimes on the victims!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Its a futuristic movie that takes place in England!. The Youth have become very violent so the government tries to brainwash them!. It is very violent but pretty good!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It is ultimately about mind control and how it really can't workWww@Enter-QA@Com