{"id":17456,"date":"2012-02-08T00:26:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T08:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=17456"},"modified":"2012-02-08T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:15:18","slug":"a-clockwork-orange-stanley-kubrick-1971-uk-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=17456","title":{"rendered":"A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971): UK \/ USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Gustav Orvefors<\/a>.\u00a0Viewed at the Santa Barbara film festival.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know why, but I love everything about this movie, the sex, the violence, the madness and the story “which is taken from the\u00a01962\u00a0dystopian\u00a0novella\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Burgess”.\u00a0Stanley Kubricks “A Clockwork Orange”\u00a0challenged all the rules of both filmmaking,\u00a0censorship and even the general\u00a0view of mental\u00a0health care and\u00a0and is today\u00a0appreciated as\u00a0modern\u00a0for its time.<\/p>\n

I saw the movie at the Santa Barbara film festival in january 2012, and it was beautifully restored from the original film. It’s always wonderful when classics are showed once again for an new generation, and it makes me happy that\u00a0when\u00a0a masterpiece\u00a0really are given the space to once again make\u00a0an impression. If the impression is good or bad\u00a0really doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

A Clockwork Orange is about the young boy Alex “Malcolm McDowell”, who lives for “rape, violence and Ludwig van” which is progressing through the film.. After a burglary gone wrong, he is seized by the police and are sentenced to prison for a long time. He gets an offer to avoid jail if he agrees to a newly invented form of rehabilitation, which he gladly accept in the belief that it will work. The treatment gives him severe nausea when he thinks about violence or sex (or listening to the “Ninth” by Beethoven), making him a defenseless victim when he is released and meets his old friends and enemies. The film raises questions about how far it is justifiable to restrict people’s free will to make them fit into society.<\/p>\n

Something that is really significant about the film is the really wide shoots. They make all the violence and madness seem allmost normal and casual. The environment\u00a0is very dreamy, and you keep feeling there is something odd in the world of the movie. I don’t know if Kubrick created the madness in the film as\u00a0a reflection from Alex mind, or if it is only to\u00a0challenge\u00a0the\u00a0common\u00a0perception of\u00a0what is normal and not.\u00a0in which case it doesn’t matter, at least not to me. The movie get me thinking and that\u00a0is something I\u00a0appreciate in\u00a0a movie.<\/p>\n

Even though everybody have different oppinions about movies, I promise you that A Clockwork Orange will\u00a0put a impact on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Gustav Orvefors.\u00a0Viewed at the Santa Barbara film festival. I don’t know why, but I love everything about this movie, the sex, the violence, the madness and the story “which is taken from the\u00a01962\u00a0dystopian\u00a0novella\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Burgess”.\u00a0Stanley Kubricks “A Clockwork Orange”\u00a0challenged all the rules of both filmmaking,\u00a0censorship and even the general\u00a0view of mental\u00a0health care and\u00a0and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}