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A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick · 1971 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A teenage gang leader in a near-future Britain spends his nights on assault, robbery and a house invasion, and his days playing Beethoven in a bedroom his parents no longer enter. Jailed, he volunteers for a government conditioning programme that pairs films of violence with a nausea drug. Rated X and then pulled from British release by Kubrick himself after copycat attacks, it stayed unavailable there for decades.

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Genre
Science FictionSatirePsychological
Theme
Freedom vs FateWar & ViolencePower & CorruptionIndividual vs Society
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Anti-HeroRebel / OutlawVillain / Tyrant
Plot structure
Ironic ReversalCircular
Symbol / motif
MusicBlindness / The EyeThe Prison
Conflict
vs Societyvs Self
Mode / tone
SatiricalIronic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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