Has anybody ever seen the movie "A clockwork orange"?

Question

What was it about? When I was little my uncles, and aunt were watching it, and they were like he doesn't need to be watching that movie. I was real young but I remember the makeup guys wore and the hats they wore. However, I wasn't allowed to see the movie. Now that I'm 29 years old I still never got around to seeing that old movie to find out what it was about. Anyway, someone whose seen the movie tell me what it was about?

Answer 1

It's a film depicting a distopian, and dysfunctional future, where brain-washing and Pavlov's Dog style theories will 'cure' you of your ailment.
It's society on the rampage, but the authorities think they can control it.
The Droogs are just a gang of youths who hang out together, but their theme is violence.
Not too different from much of today's 'youth culture'
It was a book written by Anthony Burgess, about the erosion of respect, and the rise of the cult.
The film is a brilliant depiction of the themes contained in the book.

Answer 2

Ichi the Killer or Visitor Q. These are both very deranged movies. Ichi the Killer has some of the most grahic scenes I've ever scene, including a man being hanged by the back by hooks and then having boiling oil poured onto his back. Visitor Q has a whole scene with a woman lactating on the kitchen floor while wearing trashbags, and not to mention there is also necrophelia and rape.

Answer 3

A Clockwork Orange is about this group of young hoodlums who go around town causing mischief and mayhem for the townsfolk. Malcolm McDowell plays the leader of this band of baddies. At one point they go to the home of this well to do couple. They assault the wife in a sexual way and tie up the husband forcing him to watch. Malcolm McDowell's character begins to tire of the groups antics and has a change of heart. His buddies do not like this and ostracize him from the group.

Answer 4

It's about a group of young guys in a gang that get thrills out of violence and sex.
The prison the main character is sent to selects him to take part in an experimental program where they to give him a drug to make him feel sick after seeing scenes of violence and sex.... I don't want to go into the film too much because you haven't seen it and I would recommend that you do.

Answer 5

A professional anylyzation can be found at kubrick.com. Also check out the book because there is another chapter not shown in the book, one which caused director and author to disagree.

Answer 6

you are reffering to one of my favorite movies of all time...A must see, if ever their was one. Though not for all tastes, its a cult classic. You will either love this movie, or hate it. Either way, you will probably develope a desire to see more of Stanley Kubricks work. Its about an excitable boy by the name of Alex and the misadventures that he and his "Drooges" get into. I don't want to give a single thing away, but if you don't rent this movie, I'll rent it for you, and watch it with you. Be ready to watch it more than once. You will need to in order to understand some of the lingo...
for example;
Vidi, means to to watch
red red kroovy, means blood
vino, also blood
malchic, means friend
pititsa, means old lady
devochka, means young lady
yarbles, means a man's balls
spachka, means to sleep
real horrorshow, means alot
the old "in out in out", means, well that one should be obvious...
I've seen this movie more times than I care to count. I gaurantee you will walk away from this movie, but not before being deeply affected by it. This movie will definitely leave a scar on your mind...

Answer 7

saw the movie and read the book, if u get the book and read it before u see the movie u will understand the movie better, its complicated to explane, but its not a story for impressionable people, and i don't just mean children.

Answer 8

Plot Summary for
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.
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In the not-too-distant future, a charming young sociopath named Alex, leads a nihilistic lifestyle of 'ultraviolence' which comes to a head when he is jailed for murder and volunteers for an experimental brainwashing treatment to reform criminals in exchange for a shorter prison sentence.
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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.
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Alex, a violent juvenile in the near future, is caught after a number of brutal rapes and murders. While imprisoned, he submits to a controversial experiment to make criminals ill at the mildest suggestion of violence or conflict. Now Alex's victims want to welcome him back into society with the same enthusiasm Alex had always exhibited when performing his crimes.
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it was an Extremely violent movie and i watched part of it and it is very , very weird and i turned the channel to another show and didnt watch it ... in my opinion.. don't watch it ..

Answer 9

yes - very distrubing. escpecially the part when the head gang leader and two of his gang members break into a couples house. he beats them up and rapes the woman singing the song "singing in the rain". Very scary schene.

Answer 10

You can rent the DVD or video and see for yourself because the plot is too complicated for me to explain it all but I will say that in my opinon it is a wonderful movie.