what is the main idea of "Clockwork Orange"?

Question

thanks a lot

Answer 1

The main idea of the movie is Pleasure and pain....the main character Is very violent and does not seem to care at all about what his actions do to other people. But he gets a sick pleasure out of what he does. He is feeling good about what he does while the people being raped and hurt are feeling bad. Yet the music that alex loves as you will see in the end causes him so much pain because of his treatment. This shows that even pleasure can bring you pain...and pain can bring you pleasure. It all depends on who is giving it and who is reciving it.

Answer 2

The key to "A Clockwork Orange" is that Stanley Kubrick was it's director. I believe he died last year, but until that time he always directed movies that had some type of sense in HIS head only. I believe he was disturbed, as does many a critic, but not in so many words. Another example, and the last, I believe, was "Eyes Wide Shut" back in 1999 with Tim Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Try and make sense out of that one. He was the original directorial "Shockjock", so don't analyze his films, as "A Clockwork Orange", because basically, you can't. The "theme" was all in his strange mind.

Answer 3

Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images.
By the way,I hated this movie.

Answer 4

ok the main idea is that the government is trying to decrese the crime rate. they have a program in mind, so they try it out with random dangerous criminals, and Alex was chosen. Alex became their little guinea pig...
i kno i have a better answer than this, i just cant think of it for some reason lol

Answer 5

At the end of the book Alex has an epiphany. On one hand he renounced violence, but on the other he concludes his criminal behavior was an unavoidable part of youth. He feels if he had a son, he would not be able to stop him from doing what he himself did.

Answer 6

based upon the book of the same name, its about government control and censorship. the book is far better than the film
kubrick made the film based upon the american release of the book, which has a totally different ending to the british version.

Answer 7

I wish I could tell you.We had to read that book in one of my College Lit.classes.I had such a hard time understanding it.And then I managed to get my hands on the old movie.Even worse.

Answer 8

Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.

Answer 9

Back when it was made the topics it deals with were taboo. I think it was more released relying on shock factor to make it popular.

Answer 10

That the state could control your mind, droog.