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Analysis Of The Movie ' The Same Title ' By Anthony Burgess

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Stanley Kubrick released a film adaptation of the successful book of the same title by Anthony Burgess in 1971. The very opening of the film sets the tone for the rest of the movie. The movie opens in a bar where milk is served with drugs in it, and the general setting of the bar is very raunchy with sexual sculptures composing the furniture of the establishment. These aspects all set up a general theme of social decay that accompanies the rest of the film. Within the first ten minutes our drugged up protagonist followed by his fellow hoodlums have begun terrorizing other people as well as gangs. What makes “A Clockwork Orange” so complex is that it fails to establish a clear good side within its world. Alex Delarge, the main protagonist, is captured for his crimes after a betrayal and is sentenced to prison. He participates in a government sponsored program to be released early on the grounds that he completes the rehabilitation process. The method utilized is seen as inhumane as we realize that it effectively strips the prisoner of their personal freedom to choose between right and wrong. Alex literally becomes ill at the sight of violence and can’t choose anything but to be passive lest he should become sick. The film becomes a slippery slope of what lengths will we go to in relinquishing our freedoms to be safe. There’s the moral dilemma present that Alex’s former victims turn and beat him savagely upon encountering him again. The society present in the movie is seen

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