Mini Analysis: A Clockwork Orange

A film described as repulsive to many critics and audiences around the globe, A Clockwork Orange has elements of both sin and desire. Very controversial for its time, A Clockwork Orange can be described as a "film noir" because of its strange but funny characters and its very explicit sexual scenes.

Modern Story:
The film would be described as a modern story structure. Even though the main character Alex has a fetish for ultra-violence, he comes across as "cool" to the audience. The strange wardrobe and mannerism's of the character makes the audience like his character, even though he has bad intentions.

Center of the plot:
Is it weird, but Korova (the milk bar) has huge implications in this film. The boys (Alex and posse) always go to the milk bar before or after their crimes. Is it almost like a home base for the boys.

Music:
In one of the most disturbing scenes recorded on film, the first gang rape is completely silent. The posse's enemies, are gang-raping a woman on a stage and we could only hear her screams and the sounds of the footwork of the characters. In another rape scene, now conducted by Alex and his gang, they are in an elderly couple's home. In a haunting musical pure performance, Alex begins to recite "Singing In The Rain" while they rape and murder the woman. Why its haunting is because he is looking and singing right into the camera, almost in an auditory point of view. The viewers interact with Alex while he is doing something vicious. Apart from that, the music is rather joyful and sometimes eerie in the form of tap-dancing numbers

Why the film is modern:
Even though it was released roughly 40 years ago, when Alex is getting manipulated by the doctors and "cured", the audience feels bad for him. But why? He is such an evil character with horrible intentions. Stanley Kubrick warps the minds of his viewers so they believe is Alex is being treated unfairly, but is a disgusting human being. Alex is being brainwashed just like the viewers are.