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I did this with Citizen Kane. it's shit.
Unpopular opinion: Clockwork Orange isnt a controversial masterpiece, it's just crap propped up by snobby film classes and preached as being good so people feel a need to say they liked it.
A Clockwork Orange is all over the place, sometimes incoherent, and needs context of cultural topics to really understand. It is also energetic and visually exciting which makes up for not necessarily understanding everything that is going on. All of those positives can be negatives for other people of course, because it can be hard to follow characters who behave like cartoons and spout gibberish slang while drinking milk, but it wouldn't have stuck around in the cultural consciousness for so long if it wasn't engaging for a large number of people other than film snobs.
I hope everything is okay, I saw your response and poof your account was deleted. It apparently wasn't an account created just for this comment either. Apparently Napoleon Dynamite was the straw that broke the camels back. Wish you luck out there.. hope all your endeavors go well....
I'm not sure why I'm actually responding now, but there was just something sad about finding out you being gone
Poof, I'm back!
Yayyyy! Guessing you had just set your name to [deleted] and I wasn't think about it lol
Setting a custom display name is fun times.
Kubrick seems to fork most viewers down two paths. Especially Clockwork Orange.
For one group he's pretty singular at evoking certain emotions or feelings that are distinct to Kubrick. Clockwork Orange has its own unique discomfort or the Shining having a very particular flavor of dread.
Others, those Kubrick theatrics take them right out of the moment. The twins in the hallway make you zig instead of zagging, and now you have this very serious movie trying to make you scared while taking the most obtuse route to that emotion.
Both parties are equally wrong. Kubrick encoded the architecture of the overlying conspiracy at large into his films to open the general populace to the lie we all live this week on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Agree. I tried to watch that too, a long time ago. It's also a shit film.
It doesn't have an ending