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Sure, sexual violence involves dominance
We need to watch From Beyond sometime.
Yeah, the author sees a larger problem in society and appears highly political. Not sure they ever give any reasons for the turmoil and decaying of morals. Is it in response to the government growing fascist or is the fascism a result?
See, much of this theme of facism and societal impact was not in the book but added in the film. Which makes me think it was Kubrick trying to point to something. But as we all know -- Kubrick was always playing 4-dimensional chess with his movies.
The author -- Anthony Burgess -- had more of a "catholic original sin" perspective. Man is a violent, sinful and ignorant animal. Alex basically grows out of his evil urges. That's why we need to have sympaty for people -- because of their incompleteness. The nadsat speech in the novel was actually a result of subliminal Communist propeganda which isn't present in the film (and that's a quite scary thought in and of itself, that an outside power can pervert your culture through subliminal messages -- and it also carries the message that their perpensity towards violence could also be the result of subliminal messages).
So, with Kubrick's emphasis of these themes -- I just think it a natural direction to go towards.
really don't know how you assume Deltoid was sexually abusing kids
Well it's not just the junk-grabbing. It's his whole body-language. His whole way of acting. It just oozes sexual malevolence and pervertedness. But I have no concrete evidence, of course.
And must I also point out that his spittle looks a lot like a cum-shot?
9.5/10? Was there not enough nudity in this or something?
Nah just didn't rilley up me guzzards to that lofty extent.
But 9.5 is an extremely high score from me. I've given only about 20 or so movies a perfect 10/10 of all the films I've seen -- which according to IMDB is 4.000. So Clockwork Orange is still in my top 50 of all time.