Hello??? It's not difficult to search the net - see the link below for your summary
2007-09-06 14:44:36
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answer #1
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answered by aja5505 3
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"A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-State. In this society, ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency, blind to the insidious growth of a rampant, violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex, a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang called nadsat, which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals—Dim, Pete, and Georgie—through the streets, robbing and beating men and raping women. Alex and his friends spend the rest of their time at the Korova Milkbar, an establishment that serves milk laced with drugs, and a bar called the Duke of New York."
Leaves one with a feeling of despair. Had two different endings. One for the US and one European. (marketing)
Here's a link to Nadsat dictionary. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1974/nadsat.html
2007-09-06 14:46:46
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answer #2
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answered by margherita 4
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do you really want to hear this? ok. well it involves a schizophrenic mad teen you goes on a stealing, killing, and raping rampage. And at the end gets off the hook because of a government who feels responsible. Crazy *** book. not for every one
2007-09-06 16:03:12
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answer #3
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answered by mendo_smoker 2
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boy meets girl
boy rapes girl
repeat
boy gets hit in head by pals
boy goes to prison
boy meets boy
boy kills boy
boy meets doctor
boy is freed
boy meets cruel cruel world
boy gets hit in head by pals
boy meets boy
boy tries to off self
boy gets government job
2007-09-06 19:13:58
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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They were Tripping on Breast Milk and doing the 'ol, "In and out".
2007-09-06 14:49:20
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answer #5
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answered by Snaglefritz 7
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Try watching the movie!
2007-09-06 14:44:35
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answer #6
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answered by Stephanie B 5
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twisted **** with bad sexual things if I remember right
2007-09-06 14:43:38
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answer #7
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answered by Jess 2
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Oh, “A little bit of the ultra violence.” One of our hero’s favorite sayings.
A teenager is a hoodlum in charge of a gang of two. He ditches school, is a trouble maker and likes to rob people. He doesn’t just like to rob he likes to TERRORIZE people.
He likes to dress in white, a black derby, with a false eyelash on his right eye as his disguise. He also likes to wear a reinforcement girdle to protect his package. He uses a operatic clown mask on his last crime, but more often then not he is just his own sweet (sick) self. Alex’s favorite weapon is a cane with a short blade (less than a foot long) concealed inside. A true amoral punk who shows just how bad teenagers can get, stealing for pleasure not profit and safe with the assurance as a minor any punishment would be a minor one at worst, as slap on the wrist at worse. His parents and the school system are totally unable to handle him and he is just coasting his way through life.
His “advisor” from school may be a little gay. He tries to make his point; that the guy needs to attend school by grabbing his balls and squeezing. Our hero stays home “sick” from school way to often and then goes off on petty thefts. Next to the drawer where he keeps his snake is a drawer full of stolen watches.
We find he has a love for a snake and classical music. He also has a charming aspect to his criminal self and charms a girl in the record store back to his room for a sex scene shot in fast forward. He takes the girl’s cloths off several times to engage in sex with her and explores several positions.
He steals cars and drives on the wrong side of the road to scare people. He will get in gang fights and he is violence incarnate. A lot of Russian words are used in the show. A gang fight starts when another gang tries to rape a woman and our gang comes across them. The rape is forgotten, and a bloody fight ensues.
One night after stealing a car he and his gang, after loading up on drug laced milk, stop off at a secluded home and find a man and wife there. They use the old “my car broke down” trick to get in and terrorize the couple inside. They knock a bookcase over crippling the man and kill the woman. But, he is destroyed by his own violence. His gang doesn’t like how he treats them so they turn on him and cut him, beat him and leave him for the police.
The two gang members get away and later enter a field where they can continue to be violent. Our hero is sent to prison where he charms the priest to make him think he has converted to religion. It is just another one of his little tricks to slip through life and escape all the consequences of his actions.
To give him an early release he is put into a special program to give him sympathy for those subjected to violence and to finally make the thought of violence a sickening event to him. However, as the show goes one he actually enjoys it, especially the classic musical background. They put him in a straight jacket and tie him to a chair so he can’t move; they restrain his head and put clamps on his eyes to keep his eyes open; with an attendant faithfully putting eye drops into his eyes. He can’t escape the violence; which is just fine until he is given a medication to make him sick, violently sick. That instills the reaction into him that the thought of violence will make him ill.
He is pronounced cured and released from prison only to find that his parents have rented out his room and no longer want him. When he gets mad he can’t fight for himself, so he is forced to leave. After that he stumbles across two cops, his old buddies, now honored members of the English Police force. They beat him and take him to the woods where they find a trough of water and nearly drown him.
Beaten, tired and violently sick he tries to make his way back to civilization and stumbles upon a house where he asks for help. Unfortunately, he picked the same house that he had committed his last crime at. His old victim, now bound in a wheel chair takes him in and with aid of his male helper they nurse him back to health. The man wants to kill him, and almost loses it, but he restrains himself. He has another plan in mind. He finds out that our hero is made sick by classical music. So he locks him in a room and plays classical music at him. The music invokes the same reaction that violence is supposed to invoke in him.
However, politics enters the game. Rather than killing him our hero’s victim holds him up to be the ultimate example of how the previous political administration failed. He is taken public and shown off as a poor victim of the corrupt previous government and made a media darling.
He ends our film with a political leader, the newly elected Prime Minister I think, feeding him in the hospital as he is recovering from his wounds after being beaten and the treatment that canceled out his involuntary training. Now he can listen to classical music with no pain. Of course his black heart remains unchanged and when he gets out he will get all those people who made him suffer back. But, he ends the movie as a nice quiet little boy, who is a model citizen (actually psychopath).
Stanley Kubrick took Anthony Burgess’s novel to the screen. He wanted to set it in the US, but he was afraid of the reaction from Hollywood so he set it in England. The movie almost got and X rating for its violence. It is a real “man” film you don’t want your girlfriend to see it and you don’t want any of your close friends to get any ideas from it. It was an excellent film with a chilling vision of a possible future, I strongly recommend seeing it.
2007-09-06 15:19:23
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answer #8
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answered by Dan S 7
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FILE THAT ONE UNDER ***SUCKS***
2007-09-06 14:44:37
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answer #9
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answered by pinhed_1976 6
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