The 40th Anniversary Release trailer of one of the most controversial films ever – A Clockwork Orange. Directed by the master film-maker Stanley Kuberik in 1971, the film was based on an experimental novelette by British author and intellectual, Anthony Burgess. The film is set in a near-future dystopian society (in the UK) and rather brutally satirizes middle-class morality, political opportunism, ‘alternative psychology,’ and intellectual and artistic pretensions associated with the privileged classes. It unabashedly pushes for a triumph of individuality even if such an individuality disrupts the morals and laws of society. The story revolves around a strikingly contradictory character – a young, violent and amoral working-class hoodlum who loves listening to the music of 19th century German Romantic composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven. The film was taken off and then banned in the UK (on the director’s request) after it was alleged that it was encouraging violence among UK’s youth. The film was often seen on smuggled VHS tapes in the 1980s and was only officially re-released on DVD in the 1990s. It was also regularly screened by student bodies in American universities in the 1980s. It is one of Kubrik’s most anarchic films but stylistically directed in which he uses pieces by various European classical music composers and original music by avant-garde electronic musician, Wendy Williams. Kubrick lets flashy and dizzying psychedelic fashions of the time run a riot but juxtaposes them with the crumbling decay of a failing industrial society.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:27:10 +0000
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