a clockwork orange
The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze jucily at last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation... or otherwise known as A Clockwork Orange. Your humble narrator, Alex, is the main character in this 1962 classic by Anthony Burgess. Alex is a vicious 15 year-old in this nightmarish version of the future, where the criminals take over after dark. This is a great book for the coming of age teenager who would like to see what happens when you don't grow up. In telling the this interesting adventure full of chaos and evil, Anthony Burgess shows Alex's and his friends' mind set a in a invented slang. The movie, made some time in the 1970s or 80s, is the less than perfect duplication of the novel. In its own way, with its glits and glamour, the movie portrays the book better than most. But what it succeeds in it also fails in. Some of the most important a!nd intricate parts of the story were either left out, made glamorous by Hollywood, or were shown in a different light that most readers would not find respectable to the book. The movie in comparison to the book shows lit
The novel makes this obvious by even telling the story in this language used to describe the most gruesome and graphic scenes. Also the way the characters dressed was in a futuristic way unprecievable with what the future fashion, which is now, is. The movie, although it tries to duplicate the book, fails to be an impacting and inspiring cinematic production. It is for this reason that if the directors and producers want to truly recreate the essence of the classic, they should study the book and also feel something for the story. He is so intelligent to the point where he even understands his friends' twisted and always evil minds. The language that was used to describe his friends social pathology has dissipated in coming of age. It shows that Alex is very much a static character while his three droogs have changed drastically during a year's time. When I read these lines I thought of something from maybe the '60s or '70s, where people could sit down at tables with a little jukebox that played the tunes of that time. The novel, maybe because it takes the time to show you the real Alex, does a more intricate description of the main character. Even though this novel has been looked upon as a futuristic novel, I see it as being relative to our times now. In places such as the korova milkbar, there is emphasis in the book stating that the milk bar was like the one of the olden times. In A Clockwork Orange the last chapter proves to be the most significant chapter in the book. This seems the novel would have intended to be about this time and this place. It does not even remotely began to show just how bad of a state Alex is in and will be in until the later years of his life. This is probably why I myself had failed to even have knowledge that there was a movie made from this great book.
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