Hi hi hi brothers
I watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time last night. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it; it raises questions about civil liberties, the will, violence, etc. I found myself sympathizing with the main character, for some reason, and the violence was almost comedic. I don’t know if this is a comment on myself or on the film: probably the former. I saw it as an interesting depiction of the relationship that most people have with the State. Indeed I think the State itself was a main character in the film.
A future project for me: re-read Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern and some other works surrounding technology, Enlightenment thinking, and authoritarianism, and then watch this film again. There’s something familiar about the theme of a government with positivistic aims and methods that is more than willing to trample civil liberties in the meantime. Perhaps also of the realpolitik of an opposition which prods Alex into attempting suicide in order to generate sympathetic headlines and concern for individual rights and freedoms.
