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Stanley Kubrick - Return of Clockwork Orange - Channel 4 (2000)

This is NOT the movie itself but two documentaries about it, mind you.

Protagonist Alex is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programed to detest violence. If he goes through the program his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating. -- Written by Nikki Carlyle

The controversy that surrounded Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange while the film was out of circulation suggested that it was like Romper Stomper: a glamorisation of the violent, virile lifestyle of its teenage protagonist, with a hypocritical gloss of condemnation to mask delight in rape and ultra-violence. Actually, it is as fable-like and abstract as The Pilgrim's Progress, with characters deliberately played as goonish sitcom creations. The anarchic rampage of Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a bowler-hatted juvenile delinquent of the future, is all over at the end of the first act. Apprehended by equally brutal authorities, he changes from defiant thug to cringing bootlicker, volunteering for a behaviourist experiment that removes his capacity to do evil.

It's all stylized: from Burgess' invented pidgin Russian (snarled unforgettably by McDowell) to 2001-style slow tracks through sculpturally perfect sets (as with many Kubrick movies, the story could be told through decor alone) and exaggerated, grotesque performances on a par with those of Dr Strangelove (especially from Patrick Magee and Aubrey Morris). Made in 1971, based on a novel from 1962, A Clockwork Orange resonates across the years. Its future is now quaint, with Magee pecking out "subversive literature" on a giant IBM typewriter and "lovely, lovely Ludwig Van" on mini-cassette tapes. However, the world of "Municipal Flat Block 18A, Linear North" is very much with us: a housing estate where classical murals are obscenely vandalized, passers-by are rare and jobs loll about with nothing better to do than hurt people.

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In Britain Stanley Kubrick was accused of murder and mayhem because of his film "A Clockwork Orange". He'd even received death threats. This bothered him so much that, after two years, he completely withdrew the film from circulation - never to be released again. Only after his death and against his wishes this movie was re-released. Stanley Kubrick may have been the most subversive, controversial and conspiratorial movie director ever. In contrast to his movie 2001, where he had received massive funding by the elite to prepare for the fake lunar landing, A Clockwork Orange was a low-budget production. In these days you can only trust what doesn't cost any money it seems. When there's a lot of money in it, then there's the devil in it also. And the devil is very real, I can assure you. Any human being on the spiritual kundalini-activation-level of 666 (6th chakra) is a devil - unless he has opened his heart-chakra first.

Anyway, Kubrick knew a lot about the occult, it seems. Considering that this was a low-budget production, it is probably safe to assume that the Rothschild-Tavistock institute was not behind it. The mind control experiments shown in the movie are probably meant to unmask what was and still is going on in that ominous institute. Apparently Kubrick was well aware of those experiments. In my opinion, Kubrick may have received death threats by the minions of the elite, because that movie was messing up their plans for the social conditioning of the British people during that time. A Clockwork orange had a huge socio-cultural impact on the group-mind of western society during that epoch. One might call that movie a "spiritual atom bomb".

To my knowledge, never before in human history a movie had such a strong impact on youth culture. What is also very irritating, when studying Kubrick's movies, is the fact that his style varies very much - it's almost as if these movies had been made by different directors. And then remember that Kubrick may not have died a natural death at all. By the way, this documentary was made by LUCIDA productions. Well...

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