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By Jordan Hoffman June 2, 2011 |
15 | Even Alex Is Speechless |
Nothing can throw you off your ultraviolence game like being bombarded by sexually explicit artwork.
As Alex rocks the phallic "very important work of art," Miss Weathers of Woodmere Health Farm hisses one of the genuine laugh lines in Kubrick's screenplay: "Cut the sh*t, Sonny, and get out of here!"
14 | The Long Thumb Of The Law |
Betrayed by his fellow droogs, Alex finds himself in the clutches of of sadistic police and social workers. In between bloody interrogations, the powers that be still find time for a most British back and forth.
Sergeant to Inspector: "Would you like your tea now, sir?"
Inspector to Sergeant: "No, thank you, Sergeant, we'll have it later. May I have some paper towels, please?"
13 | Lewd Testament |
Imprisoned, Alex finds solace in The Good Book. Not in its message of peace, humility and faith, but rather through fantasizing about all the violence, destruction and handmaiden-shagging. (Here he envisions himself as a Roman centurion flaying Christ on the way to the cross.) Still, he cites a preference for the older chapters loaded with "fighting and the old in-out" as opposed to the later "preachy talking."
12 | The Ludovico Medical Centre |
Alex weasels his way into an experimental treatment that may get his prison sentence commuted. It may also turn him into a living symbol of social norms and science working together to stunt free will and alter behavior on a biological level. But before we argue about that, let's just check out the cool futuristic buildings in the background.
11 | Reality Check: This Movie Is Effed Up |
While mind-altering drugs pump through him, Alex is forced to view films of rape and torture.
That's an actual doctor dropping saline solution in Malcolm McDowell's eyes, and just so you know that he suffered for his art, McDowell scratched his cornea so badly during the shooting of these scenes he needed an emergency injection of morphine.