A Clockwork Orange Research

• Burgess explains one of the elementary reasons why The film itself was more of a "shocker" than the book, "to tolchock a chelloveck in the kishkas does not sound so bad as booting an old man in the guts...But in a film little can be implied; everything has to be shown. Language ceases to be an opaque protection against being appalled and takes a very secondary place"


• The film stimulates for two and a half hours an appetite for sadistic violence with the instantaneous communication which the visual arts uniquely offer...I believe that when 'A Clockwork Orange' is generally released, it will lead to a Clockwork cult which will magnify teenage violence.



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