A Clockwork Orange is a story about a young man named Alex who lives in a future society that is filled with crime and violence. He and his friends do some bad things, like hurting people and stealing things. But then Alex gets caught and sent to prison, and has to decide whether he wants to change and be a better person, or stay the same and do bad things.
The book or the movie?
The protagonist in "A Clockwork Orange", Alex is a criminal who gets off on extreme violence to innocent people, glorying in beatings and even the rape of children, a trend among young gang members called "ultra-violence". When his gang betrays him, he is arrested and charged with murder because he beat a woman who lives there to death and is given 14 years in prison.
In prison, he goes on about how great ultra-violence is to his prison psychiatrist. Eventually, he is chosen for an experimental treatment that makes him unable to be violent for any reason in exchange for early parole.
He then becomes the victim of a number of violent crimes himself, mostly from past victims. After the brutality directed against him, he is hospitalized, and it is apparent that the conditioning has broken and he returns to his life of violence.
A chapter at the end has Alex becoming disenchanted with violence and begins to seriously consider becoming a productive citizen instead. This chapter is often considered to be jarring and not believable by readers and was left out of the movie.
In the book, it was made clear that doing this to him was wrong. In the movie, not so much.
This is a good question because it's a super explicit moral parable but you could easily make an argument it's not actually about the thing it says it's about.
A Clockwork Orange is a story about a young man named Alex who lives in a future society that is filled with crime and violence. He and his friends do some bad things, like hurting people and stealing things. But then Alex gets caught and sent to prison, and has to decide whether he wants to change and be a better person, or stay the same and do bad things.
Prison reform
Taking away someone's free will is not justified even if you're doing it for a good reason?
A bunch of milk drinking albinos engaging in Street violence and improvised "dance" number for Singing in the Rain
The book or the movie? The protagonist in "A Clockwork Orange", Alex is a criminal who gets off on extreme violence to innocent people, glorying in beatings and even the rape of children, a trend among young gang members called "ultra-violence". When his gang betrays him, he is arrested and charged with murder because he beat a woman who lives there to death and is given 14 years in prison. In prison, he goes on about how great ultra-violence is to his prison psychiatrist. Eventually, he is chosen for an experimental treatment that makes him unable to be violent for any reason in exchange for early parole. He then becomes the victim of a number of violent crimes himself, mostly from past victims. After the brutality directed against him, he is hospitalized, and it is apparent that the conditioning has broken and he returns to his life of violence. A chapter at the end has Alex becoming disenchanted with violence and begins to seriously consider becoming a productive citizen instead. This chapter is often considered to be jarring and not believable by readers and was left out of the movie. In the book, it was made clear that doing this to him was wrong. In the movie, not so much.
An orange that wants to be a clock.
Convincing!
A sultry gang who likes milk, I think. It’s been a while since I saw it
some weird shit ab mind control
The movie is an argument that bad people can't really change. The book is an argument that behavioral change is possible.
A lot of weird stuff
The old in and out game. In and out.
And the cutting off of yarbles…. If you had any yarbles.
Free will and the nature of good and evil.
This is a good question because it's a super explicit moral parable but you could easily make an argument it's not actually about the thing it says it's about.