The last chapter is actually more depressing if you think about it. He's grown up, but he talks about how all kids will go through the violent phase he did, and that it will never end. Especially without the kind of intervention they did on him.
I think this too. He has become 'the other shop', as he puts it. Also, without that choice to be 'good', Alex being 'ultraviolent' earlier in the book means nothing. It's the choice that makes him *him*, and not a clockwork orange. Another way of looking at it, I guess, is that the technique *did* actually work, and potentially *has* stripped him of who he is/was.
I didn't see Clockwork until I was in my mid 20's. For years I saw the iconic poster as tye VHS cover in video rental storea but my parents would never let me watch it. I was lucky enough to see it at a single screen art house cinema and I fell in love with it. In fact, that movie was a life changer due to some very dark circumstances in my life at that time. Clockwork was therapy for me. When I read the book afted, I was very shocked with Chapter 21. It didn't ruin the story for me, but I preferred how Kubrick adapted the book for the big screen without that chapter.
A Clockwork Orange was published the same time The Rolling Stones formed. Their manager used to write notes on the backs of their albums in Burgess's slang. The suits didn't know what it meant and always removed the notes on second printings. Ten years later sci-fi author Ken Bulmer wrote a series of books using a second language much like the Burgess-created Nadsat.
Hello Mr. Adam Wright! I remember renting a VHS copy of "A Clockwork Orange" many, many years algo because it is a cult movie, like many of Kubrick's and I enjoyed it and was also shocked, so to say, for the depiction of the violence by the main character and his gang. Anyway, I think it is a great movie. As for the book, I haven't read it but I regard the movie Is a good adaptation of the novel, judging for your comments on this video. Keep on the good reviews and greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽👍
Very popular book when I was at school. Even the semi-literate yobbos would read it (due to all the sex and violence of course) but, as Burgess pointed out, they also got a basic course in the Russian language at the same time.
The reason you prefer the Kubrick version is the same thing that draws me. I appreciate both and have been a long time fan of both. The movie however shows an unquenchable evil, that it submerged into every part of his being and they can not separate Alex from who he is, a diabolical criminal, that went through their "treatment" and came out the other side, a villain who relishes his villainy. And you can take that from someone who has always called themselves AlexDimm.
The last chapter is actually more depressing if you think about it. He's grown up, but he talks about how all kids will go through the violent phase he did, and that it will never end. Especially without the kind of intervention they did on him.
I think this too. He has become 'the other shop', as he puts it. Also, without that choice to be 'good', Alex being 'ultraviolent' earlier in the book means nothing. It's the choice that makes him *him*, and not a clockwork orange.
Another way of looking at it, I guess, is that the technique *did* actually work, and potentially *has* stripped him of who he is/was.
The copy i read had a glossary at the end. I did not realise that i struggled reading that book. Once i finished it i saw the glossary.
I didn't see Clockwork until I was in my mid 20's. For years I saw the iconic poster as tye VHS cover in video rental storea but my parents would never let me watch it.
I was lucky enough to see it at a single screen art house cinema and I fell in love with it. In fact, that movie was a life changer due to some very dark circumstances in my life at that time. Clockwork was therapy for me.
When I read the book afted, I was very shocked with Chapter 21. It didn't ruin the story for me, but I preferred how Kubrick adapted the book for the big screen without that chapter.
A Clockwork Orange was published the same time The Rolling Stones formed. Their manager used to write notes on the backs of their albums in Burgess's slang. The suits didn't know what it meant and always removed the notes on second printings. Ten years later sci-fi author Ken Bulmer wrote a series of books using a second language much like the Burgess-created Nadsat.
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Hello Mr. Adam Wright! I remember renting a VHS copy of "A Clockwork Orange" many, many years algo because it is a cult movie, like many of Kubrick's and I enjoyed it and was also shocked, so to say, for the depiction of the violence by the main character and his gang. Anyway, I think it is a great movie.
As for the book, I haven't read it but I regard the movie Is a good adaptation of the novel, judging for your comments on this video. Keep on the good reviews and greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽👍
Very popular book when I was at school. Even the semi-literate yobbos would read it (due to all the sex and violence of course) but, as Burgess pointed out, they also got a basic course in the Russian language at the same time.
The reason you prefer the Kubrick version is the same thing that draws me. I appreciate both and have been a long time fan of both. The movie however shows an unquenchable evil, that it submerged into every part of his being and they can not separate Alex from who he is, a diabolical criminal, that went through their "treatment" and came out the other side, a villain who relishes his villainy. And you can take that from someone who has always called themselves AlexDimm.
I prefer the version that Alex matured in the end
CLOCKWORK ORANGE IS PEOPLE!
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In the book Alex and his droogs wear black outfits.
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