When this movie came out critics like the NYT said it was fascist propaganda. It pushed a Hobbesian view of human nature and said that lofty minded left-wing ideas of ‘reforming’ violent criminals were doomed to failure.

I'm drinking moloko vellocet at the Korova milkbar as I'm typing this, while listening to Ludwig Von.

>>212738168 (OP)
> "teen" hooligans are too cool like avant-garde mimes
> the middle-class couple being unlikable caricatures makes the rape/assault OTT (Even proto-HK B-movie/Miike)
> oh no The State is literal North Korea gulag tortures
> This is revealed as the British ideology everyone's celebrating

>>212738168 (OP)
The original book ended with the main character truly reformed, but Kubrick wanted to be all cynical and butchered it, just like he did with The Shining.

>>212739704
and he was right to do so. movie is one of the GOATs

Stanley Kubrick‘s “A Clockwork Orange” is an ideological mess, a paranoid right-wing fantasy masquerading as an Orwellian warning. It pretends to oppose the police state and forced mind control, but all it really does is celebrate the nastiness of its hero, Alex.

>>212738168 (OP)
That is a /tv/ tier retarded take. You sure that's what they said?

>>212739704
It wasn't even so much that he was reformed, but that he grew out of it. It was a beautiful ending and meant a lot to me as a young man. I was lucky to have that version of the book because they cut that chapter in the original american version, which Kubrick adapted

FOOD ALRIGHT?

We love CO here on /tv/

>>212741319
I like Ebert but he's an overly emotional pussy

>>212739704
>>212741526
>growing out of being a murderous rapist psychopath
“I was cured alright” is the superior ending.

>>212739704
you know what they say: always end your story with a whimper

>>212739704
authors that wimp out in the denoument deserve to have their last chapters cut as a matter of kino.
from there it's on the author reaction to decide if they are worthy or lucky.
Burgess, lucky.
Palahniuk, worthy.

>>212741655
low iq take. Growing out of being a shithead doesn't mean he didn't do horrible things. Now he has to live with what he did for the rest of his life.

>>212738168 (OP)
They cut out most of his prison time, like when he was still in jail and a cellmate tried to rape him so he and the other's stomepd the guy to death. Of course the other guys threw alex under the bus when the guards came along.

>>212742012
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you didn't read the book

>>212742117
So the real lesson is to never outgrow your shitheadedness? I can handle that

>>212742750
Well played, based retard. I got nothing.

>>212742946
Shitheads keep winning