40th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’
Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ celebrates its 40th anniversary this year since its release in 1971. For those of you who may (ashamadly) not know of Kubrick’s masterpiece, the film is adapted from Anthony Burgess’ novel of the same title and tells the story of a young man, Alex (played by Malcolm MacDowell), living in an oppressive society in which he feels reduced to nothing more than a machine. Lashing out against this repression, Alex and his fellow ‘droogs’ set out on regular rampages of violent attacks, breaking into homes and raping women. Alex is later arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison and forced into an experimental aversion therapy regime that hopes to solve society’s crime problems. Seeming like it might have worked, Alex is then released back into society as an apparently ‘new man’, though as an audience there is a certain amount of ambiguity here.
When the film was first released it earned itself an X rating as a result of the copius amounts of sex and violence displayed, arguably this brought it good publicity, the excitement of watching a film that could be taken off screen is a pretty good foothold. Even now ‘Clockwork Orange’ is passed around friends as a necessity, it seems rare to come across someone who hasn’t heard of it even without seeing it and to celebrate, a so called ‘blu ray revolution’… 5 days ago, Warner Home Video released an eight disc, limited edition collection including Lolita, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and his last film, Eyes Wide Shut.
It look’s pretty spectacular I have to say:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/04/25/clockwork-orange-blu-ray-trailer?objectid=954687
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