Sunday, 8 May 2016

Clockwork Orange
(1971)

80%

Clever satire on the dehumanised pseudo capitalism of White Western and materialistic cultures. Their morality is expressed as forced goodness rather than a chosen code of ethics; resulting in the elimination of difference between criminals and non criminals.

Critiquing a cynical, crime creating culture that uses delinquents as scapegoats for its own ills, then exacerbates its own creation by conflating moral goodness with obedience; leading to the inevitable calls for totalitarian solutions to the self created problems.

Told from the point of view of rapists and the violent, we are invited to laugh at the goings on; reducing this film's audience to those who understand the underlying themes – and rapists and the violent.

The acting is superb from all concerned with Michael Bates a tour de force as an ex Forces Prison Officer.

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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.