Code and Cinematic Signs in A Clockwork Orange Cheung Tsz Ching 13204599 INTRODUCTION A Clockwork Orange (1971), directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film is based on Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962. A teenager Alex DeLarge leads a gang of ‘droogs’. They spend each night committing crimes of violence. During one of the “night out”, Alex is captured by the police, convicted of murder and rape, thus sentenced to 14 years in jail. While imprison, Alex volunteers for an experimental
film, A Clockwork Orange, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, was released in 1972 in the United States and United Kingdom. It challenged the morality of torturing violent criminals in order to reform them into peaceful citizens as a form of punishment. A Clockwork Orange was created with the intention of sending the message that punishment should be used to deter individuals from committing crimes, but not by intentionally inflicting physical or psychological injuries. In A Clockwork Orange
as in literature; for some, yet for some it is a total lack of empathy in life which establishes a purpose for their existence. In both American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange, Ellis and Burgess explore the corrosive nature of modern humanity; 1980s American ‘yuppie’ culture and the threat of 1960s youth culture. Both Patrick Bateman and Alex DeLarge’s psychopathic traits are used as symbols of the absence of meaning that can be associated with brutal yet determined lifestyles, and represent what can
Psychopaths and sociopaths tend to get these examples from pop culture icons such as The Joker from the Batman series, Hannibal Lector from The Silence of the Lambs, Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange. Through these icons we tend to get the example that whenever someone is medically declared a psychopath or a sociopath we view them as scum on the Earth. Although what really separates a psychopath and a sociopath are their childhoods