Viddy
For its cinematic importance, I rented A Clockwock Orange last night along with four others. I knew about the sex and violence and I thought that I was prepared for it. I was not, and worst of all I decided to watch it at midnight. I’m not saying that I didn’t like the film. I think it was brillant commentary on society and how thoughts and actions are either utlraprojected or ultrasuppressed.
Of course everyone refers to the violent rape scenes, but what I take from this movie is the prison yard scene. Seeing all those prisoners walking in a circle in business suits reminds me of Wall Street. But my favorite exchange is from the Minister in this scene when he says:
Excellent. He’s enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He’ll do.
Images of yuppies, Gordon Gekko and Alex Keaton immediately began to pop up. Was Kubrick saying that capitalism would become our own prison? Did he foresee that the ‘80s would be consumed by yuppy scum?
And what about the whole milk thing? Did he know about mad cow? Yeah, that’s not in milk, I know, but that would have been a fun thing to mess with.
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