Monday, October 31, 2011

[Movie] A Clockwork Orange: Perspective Changes Over 40 Years

Knowing the story where this movie was banned 40 years ago will make you realize how society has changed around us since then. Produced in 1971, this movie is finally screened in Singapore for the first time (I guess) last Friday as one of the movies in Perspective Film Festival, organized by WKWSCI, NTU.

If you are really a conservative religious person, particularly Christian, I do not suggest for any of you to watch this movie (there is one particular scene that might offend Christian people). For the first half of movie, Stanley Kubrick as Writer and Director of movie, will bring you unbelievable scenes where it was something controversial during 1970s (I believe). I believe those scenes are some of the reasons why the movie was banned 40 years ago, because they give some ideas to people for doing crimes that they never think of. But nowadays, such crimes have been replicated everywhere, so those kind of ideas are not really controversial anymore.

On top of that, the movie also told us about changing someone personality and preferences will have drawback to the person, where in this movie, after Alex went thru the treatment trial, he became a defenseless guy. It was shown in few scenes where he cant help himself when he was intimidated by other parties. In real life perhaps, it also applicable to a group of people who want to change those people who are not following current society norms i.e. personality disorder, sexuality, etc. So if you try to change it, please watch the drawback as well, because you never knew what you turned  men into when you tried to change them.

Below is the short storyline taken from IMDB.

Protagonist Alex is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.

Trailer Video from Youtube


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