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A Clockwork Orange
Summary: Essay provides a short analysis for "A ClockWork Orange."
"A Clockwork Orange", directed by the immeasurable Stanley Kubrick, starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adirenne Corri, Aubrey Morris and James Marcus and produced by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, is, in my opinion, one of the greatest morality plays ever captured on film. It leads viewer in to many different pathways of thought about the time we live in, and about the validity of the concepts of law and morality, and the applications of the two in general society.
Vincent Canby was on to something when he called "A Clockwork Orange" perversely moral and essentially Christian. The value shown by the general public are far from either, but the whole idea I got from the many times I saw the film is the dangers of leading a life free of free will, and following the will imposed by those in higher authority. Alex is by no means a moral character...
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