SSC Film Studies

Full metal jacket is a depiction of the vietnam war 20 years later, so initially it's going to have a bigger response to people who've had family or have been in the war themselves. The use of war in film along with the hundreds of people dying throughout also creates shock and makes the audience react in some way. The film is a anti-war film which is bound to create controversy in a patriotic country as America, showing.

Clockwork Orange is a film that shows a lot of violence, however it's not this that creates controversy, it's the fact you are made to sympathise with a sociopathic rapist. It makes the audience view the film through the perspective of Alex and therefore lets you to feel sorry for him at the end of the film. Kubrick was alarmed of the copycat assaults that where happening after the release of the film, so it was withdrawn from cinema until 1997.