Red, the color of heat, anger, blood, floods the screen for the first thirty-two seconds of the film. Time enough for the viewer to really contemplate the effect of the color red. Suddenly, the screen switches to blue, but it doesn't last nearly as long, maybe a fourth of the time. It is a te...

Choice and free will are necessary to maintain humanity, both individually and communally; without them, man is no longer human but a "clockwork orange," a deterministic mechanism, as demonstrated in Anthony Burgess' novel, A Clockwork Orange. The choice between good and evil is a decision every...

Teenage rebellion is concept I am well aquatinted with at the age of sixteen. What is the cause of this desire to free thyself from the grasp of paternal control and the society norm? It is a natural human tendency to commit to the destruction of influence and give birth to natural original thought,...