AS Queer AS A Clockwork Orange......
A CLockwork Orange .... the dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess and made into a movie by the
inimitable Stanley Kubrick ; Just downloaded it from (where-else ..but ) Kazaa !
Will be watching it in a few hours. But before (actually much b4 ) i started dloading this i
started out with the ritual of just knowing what the movie is all about . I always do this , and
believe me it helps - i m not referrin to the spoilers or anything but juss the plot and
character overview and stuff like tht and especially for a movie as arcane as this !
The plot is set a few years in the future ( future- apropos the time the book was written), the book follows the "career" {lol} of fifteen year old Alex. His main pleasures in life are
sex of all kinds
random acts of extreme violence ("ultraviolence" in Alex's idiom).
and Beethoven.
Burgess tells his story in a teenage slang called "Nadsat", which mixes Russian with English
slang....... and if this doesnt get your attention ..thn hmmmmm ... i declare thee as BOVINE!!!
Eventually Alex is caught and "rehabilitated" by a program of aversion therapy, which, though
rendering him incapable of violence (even in self-defence), also makes him unable to enjoy his
favourite classical music as an unintended side effect.
The moral question of the book is that Alex is now "good", but his ability to choose this has
been taken away from him; his "goodness" is as artificial as the clockwork orange of the title.
Let me watch the movie now and then WE { huh ??? } shall discuss !!! [ again .. huh ???? ]
Current Mood: Bored
Current Music: Janis Joplin - Son of a preacher man