What does the title A Clockwork Orange mean?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, December 1, 2007 22:35
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Quote:I think you’ve made a very astute description of A Clockwork Orange. Certainly the best I’ve seen so far.
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
The big question is whether society's victimization of the "cured" Alex - now repentent, harmless and helpless as a child - is any more defensible that Alex's former crimes. Perhaps the youth crime wave is just a symptom of a society that is sick at all levels?
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Originally posted by fredgiblet:
As I understand it (though this is stretching the limits of my knowledge) the Malay word for person includes orangutans, but that's from a half-remembered article on the book so don't take my word for it.
That's pretty nearly correct...I believe
that 'orang-u-tan' translates as 'man of the
forest' or 'man of the jungle'...So , that
interpretation makes sense in the context of
'A Clockwork (engineered) Man'...Didn't this film
make the list of 'dystopian' films that we saw
here recently ?
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I also concur with that idea. When I watch the movie now, specifically the ending when the refined old man is cutting up Alex's meat and is giving him a very coded message, you get the sense that the gov't is using Alex to cover their asses, and that Alex is more than happy to go along with it to be "cured". That these are two evils using each other so that they can survive.
Maybe in a few years, the meaning behind the scenes and the movie will change again. That's Kubrick's greatest genius as a filmmaker. That you can see any of his movies numerous times and come away with different interpretations of the film. Just like we're seeing here on this thread.
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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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