@8532110 Pretty sure this forum fits this movie PERFECTLY. Plus maybe talking about something that people like will make their day a little better. So fits this forum well. A little inappropriate to be so discriminative. Maybe 4chan is more appropriate for your needs?
@Silent Survivor I did love the movie but i found it a little confusing at times. The overall concept was FANTASTIC and very creative. However i found the ending a little vague and left to personal interpretation. What do you think?
Have you read the book? Interesting that the ‘moral’ of the film and the ‘moral’ of the book are pretty much complete opposites.
A friend and I recently went to a costume party as ‘Droogs’, wearing white suspenders over white trousers and black boots, black hat, and the make-up. A twenty year old asked if I was meant to be Charlie Chaplin. I wanted to punch him in the face.
Unfortunately i haven’t read the book yet. Was holding out to read the book first but i am way too busy and thought i would watch the movie.
Now i think i really have to read the book! Haha.
Some people need to absorb more culture! -_-
Can’t look at ‘singing in the rain’ the same, lol. Hope the book illustrates his character more. I found although he was the main character you don’t learn much about him and he seems a little one dimensional in the movie.
Remarkable film, and more than a film – a litmus test. Even the director was appalled at how many people took it as a glorification of idiocy and violence, and even I and friends are guilty of dressing as droogies at Halloween for “fun”, disregarding the fact that Alec and his pals were exactly the sort of people that made our personal lives miserable. We were so jazzed by the artful presentation, amazing performances and rejection of authority that we kinda missed the point. It’s been almost 40 years since I saw it, and it was extremely influential to me.
Nowadays, I think I see what the director saw — that corruption is complete and thorough, that abdication of personal responsibility was rampant, and the end of CIVILization was near. It may look like we didn’t end up there — gangs of sociopaths roaming the streets, beating the disenfranchised — but we did. it’s just that it now happens on tv and tweets and comments on websites. Yes indeed, the loudest, rudest, meanest, most selfish are running the show – but instead of booted gang members, it’s the tv pundits, the social media twits, and a society that celebrates rudeness, hatred, youth and doing whatever the fuck you want, others be damned. Alec’s behavior is now the mission statement of most politicians, celebrities and voters. “I will do whatever I want, and lie about it — and if you’re too stupid to realize it, you deserve me”.
We deserve it, I fear. Not all of us; few of us here. But mankind deserves to exterminate itself.
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One of my all time favorites,i lived this movie 🙂
Not the right forum for movie discussion. imdb would suit your needs
@8532110 Pretty sure this forum fits this movie PERFECTLY. Plus maybe talking about something that people like will make their day a little better. So fits this forum well. A little inappropriate to be so discriminative. Maybe 4chan is more appropriate for your needs?
@Silent Survivor I did love the movie but i found it a little confusing at times. The overall concept was FANTASTIC and very creative. However i found the ending a little vague and left to personal interpretation. What do you think?
The life story of the woman who created the sound track is itself amazing.
And what is that ‘the Guardian’?
Have you read the book? Interesting that the ‘moral’ of the film and the ‘moral’ of the book are pretty much complete opposites.
A friend and I recently went to a costume party as ‘Droogs’, wearing white suspenders over white trousers and black boots, black hat, and the make-up. A twenty year old asked if I was meant to be Charlie Chaplin. I wanted to punch him in the face.
Unfortunately i haven’t read the book yet. Was holding out to read the book first but i am way too busy and thought i would watch the movie.
Now i think i really have to read the book! Haha.
Some people need to absorb more culture! -_-
Can’t look at ‘singing in the rain’ the same, lol. Hope the book illustrates his character more. I found although he was the main character you don’t learn much about him and he seems a little one dimensional in the movie.
Remarkable film, and more than a film – a litmus test. Even the director was appalled at how many people took it as a glorification of idiocy and violence, and even I and friends are guilty of dressing as droogies at Halloween for “fun”, disregarding the fact that Alec and his pals were exactly the sort of people that made our personal lives miserable. We were so jazzed by the artful presentation, amazing performances and rejection of authority that we kinda missed the point. It’s been almost 40 years since I saw it, and it was extremely influential to me.
Nowadays, I think I see what the director saw — that corruption is complete and thorough, that abdication of personal responsibility was rampant, and the end of CIVILization was near. It may look like we didn’t end up there — gangs of sociopaths roaming the streets, beating the disenfranchised — but we did. it’s just that it now happens on tv and tweets and comments on websites. Yes indeed, the loudest, rudest, meanest, most selfish are running the show – but instead of booted gang members, it’s the tv pundits, the social media twits, and a society that celebrates rudeness, hatred, youth and doing whatever the fuck you want, others be damned. Alec’s behavior is now the mission statement of most politicians, celebrities and voters. “I will do whatever I want, and lie about it — and if you’re too stupid to realize it, you deserve me”.
We deserve it, I fear. Not all of us; few of us here. But mankind deserves to exterminate itself.
Great movie.
Parodies the human condition quite well.