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A Clockwork Orange
Kubrick adapts Burgess. Ultraviolence, aversion therapy and the politics of free will.
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A Clockwork Orange
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Kubrick inverts his own classical music symbolism
→ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The classical music that scores Alex's ultraviolence in A Clockwork Orange is Kubrick's anti-Zarathustra. Where Strauss in 2001 signals transcendence, Beethoven in Orange signals corruption — same tool, opposite ends.
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