tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post4304866928722742685..comments2024-03-29T05:33:43.878-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: A Clockwork OrangeOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-6442157324979981842020-03-02T09:14:39.079-05:002020-03-02T09:14:39.079-05:00WithOUT losing.. WithOUT losing.. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-39171767657104447002020-03-02T09:13:03.196-05:002020-03-02T09:13:03.196-05:00I promised to cycle back and report on a re-viewin...I promised to cycle back and report on a re-viewing of the film, which took me longer than I thought. But it was worth it. The film is brilliant. Abhorring violence in movies as I do, I wondered myself how I managed to watch it on the big screen twice in a week. Now I know. The violence is clear and terrible, but it is not prurient. In fact, watching it is more like watching a ballet—not a pretty one, but a telling one, perfectly choreographed to make its point with losing aesthetic distance, a commodity so scarce in the arts these days as to seem anachronistic. I was more horrified by the nastiness of the reprogramming scenes. As I think both Burgess and Kubrick would have wanted in their audience response. Brilliant. Totally brilliant.Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-17454185274650316502020-02-26T17:28:10.574-05:002020-02-26T17:28:10.574-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04465691545581648283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-12004191789420130742020-02-25T08:27:52.796-05:002020-02-25T08:27:52.796-05:00MIchael, I plan on watching it again tonight. I a...MIchael, I plan on watching it again tonight. I am not at all sure I still have the stomach for it. I will try to work out how I was able to see it twice in week and tomorrow will report here. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-40128230970739356482020-02-25T08:24:46.551-05:002020-02-25T08:24:46.551-05:00What an experience, Stan! But then, from what I k...What an experience, Stan! But then, from what I know of your youth in Apartheid South Africa, you have been an eyewitness to some stunning and very disturbing events. I pray the world will stop giving us so many sensations of being in a movie thriller. I prefer my experiences of crime to be fictional. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-48564594629251201642020-02-25T02:51:54.736-05:002020-02-25T02:51:54.736-05:00I read the book long before I saw the film. I thin...I read the book long before I saw the film. I think the impact was stronger that way. It was years before I was willing to try the film...Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-70490481142419308582020-02-24T23:49:28.258-05:002020-02-24T23:49:28.258-05:00I was a grad student at the University of Illinois...I was a grad student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign when I saw it. I was completely blown away by the movie, not only the story, but also the use of music. What made the evening unforgettable was when I walked out of the movie theatre, the riot police were sweeping down Green Street only a few yards from away. It was the day the USA bombed and mined Haiphong and the students were out in protest. I truly felt I had become part of the movie.Stan Trolliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12608236210727280695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-52556133577980934812020-02-24T18:45:12.116-05:002020-02-24T18:45:12.116-05:00Me, too, my brother. Ordinarily I am so turned of...Me, too, my brother. Ordinarily I am so turned off by violence in film that I hide under my sweater until it is over. David used to tell me the coast was clear: “You can look now.” But Kubrick seemed to be able to tell the story with all that visual detail without making it seem prurient. I am going to watch it again tomorrow in honor of the birthday. I’ll see if my response is different now.Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-32586919547848004902020-02-24T18:36:28.872-05:002020-02-24T18:36:28.872-05:00Thank you, Jamie. As I said to Zoe, above, Burges...Thank you, Jamie. As I said to Zoe, above, Burgess has been described as someone who wrote fiction about himself was well as his characters. He was certainly a genius, but even so, a book that good that quick? Not from scratch. Not in my wildest imaginings. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-49816967680224540462020-02-24T16:40:02.241-05:002020-02-24T16:40:02.241-05:00What a wonderful tribute, Sis! I remember seeing ...What a wonderful tribute, Sis! I remember seeing Clockwork Orange when it came out. It struck me as crazily bizarre--though of course I was working on Wall Street at the time which likely would have seemed the same to Burgess! Having said all that, there is NO scene in any movie that stays with me more than the one of the boys doing their thing in that apartment. I guess that's a true testament to Kubrick and Burgess, though God knows what it says about me!Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-82627185242067926632020-02-24T16:24:53.903-05:002020-02-24T16:24:53.903-05:00Excellent! I'm with Zoe Sharp above: three wee...Excellent! I'm with Zoe Sharp above: three weeks?!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494553839052036175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-22225259374581107382020-02-24T13:05:56.220-05:002020-02-24T13:05:56.220-05:00That’s what he said, Zoe. He was apt, according t...That’s what he said, Zoe. He was apt, according to one biographer, to “mythologize.” He may have typed it out in three months. But all the dialogue in the book was written in his invented language—Nazdat. I think he must have had that all figured out way ahead of time. He did not outline. He said his stories came from his unconscious. Being a pantser myself, I have an idea that a lot that book flew out of him. His wife was brutally sexually assaulted by two AWOL GIs while he was away in the war. Critics and biographers think that the central themes of sexual violence and appropriate punishment came in the wake of that tragedy. I can imagine those parts pouring out of him. Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-64243333743681154492020-02-24T12:02:44.302-05:002020-02-24T12:02:44.302-05:00He wrote it in 3 weeks?!? Wow, how long is the boo...He wrote it in 3 weeks?!? Wow, how long is the book? Mind you, in my experience it can take just as long to write a short book as it does to write a long one, because every word carries that much more weight.Zoë Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065427744062846167noreply@blogger.com