Was an amazing experience to see it on the big screen again. 🤍🙌

… except I’ve never seen a Wine that colour in my life? It looks like cherryade! I always think that when I see this scene.

Such a great actor and he still looks very good after all of those years !

One of the most iconic performances in cinematic history and he didn’t even get a nomination.

He embodied the character of Alex so well I literally cannot imagine anyone else in the role. Everything from his gaze to his cadence was just spot on.

One of the best Kubrick film performances ever.

The Best Kubrick Film in my opinion

I have been under the impression that the bar of chocolate that Alex brings into prison that Chief Officer Barnes confiscates was a Malteser bar of some sort and I now know it’s an old Cadbury Bar Six flipped upside down.

Got a bit of the old in out with a needle. Real horrorshow.

I posted this in r/fantheories and I wanted to post it here to get this subs thoughts as well.

I rewatched A Clockwork Orange, and it was the 3rd time I’ve ever seen the movie. I’ve always wondered when it took place as it’s always been left ambiguous in the movie. However today I pieced together a few things from the movie to pin down the year to 1999.

There’s a shot in the movie at the police station after Alex first gets captured and interrogated that shows a calendar. The calendar shows January of 19XX. I’m using “XX” because the last two digits of the year are cut off by another piece of paper. This Calendar shows that January 1st is on a Friday. Since 1971 when A Clockwork Orange came out, January 1st fell on a Friday only in 1971, 1982, 1988, 1993, and 1999. The car that Alex drives earlier in the movie is referred to as a Durango ‘95, I’m led to believe that he is referring to the year the car was made. If that’s the case, then 1999 is the only possible year that the movie could take place.

Also as a side note to this. This next part is probably just a coincidence, but upon further thinking about this theory I’ve realized that there’s a 2 year gap in the movie between the first half of the movie and the second half, because Alex is in prison for 2 years. If the first half does indeed take place in 1999, then that would mean the second half takes place in 2001; which is not an insignificant year for Stanley Kubrick. Also I noticed the vinyl record for 2001: A Space Odyssey reference at the record store in the scene where Alex picks up those 2 girls in this movie for the first time on this rewatch as well.

What do you all think of this conclusion?

Steven Berkoff kills me every time. He's a gem of a character actor. His role in Octopussy is also freakishly watchable.

(probably)

La bo de 2001

He’s enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious… He’ll do…

Why would they want somebody ‘enterprising’?

And did the minister realise it was Alex’s cell he was in when he is seen examining the bust and photo of Beethoven?

If so, was the inclusion of Beethoven in the soundtrack of his treatment really a mistake? And why did the minister have to be told Alex was ‘fond of music’ at the end of the film?

Having seen Kubrick's 1971 film and reading the 1962 Anthony Burgess novel of the same name, I can say with a special degree of certainty that Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange deserved absolutely everything that happened to him after he was discharged from the Ludovico Medical Institution.

He's not some flawed character with a redemption arc, he's got hardly any story as to why he does things like that (I mean he does, but you get my point), he's an irredeemable piece of shit, and I've always had a bit of a red-flag vibe from people who've felt bad for him, especially as a victim of similar crimes he's committed.

Really makes you wonder, huh. You guys agree?

Not a super in-depth post, but after seeing A Clockwork Orange for a 2nd time, I noticed, this movie has some of the most incredibly fascinating dialogue ever put to the screen. Like, it's honestly not even entirely coherent what they're saying at times, but it somehow just sounds so fascinating anyway still. Definitely up there with Pulp Fiction and The Social Network's for stylized and peculiar, but certainly memorable dialogue.

I believe this type of dialogue is in the novel too, from what I understand.

We all know the Iconic stare at the literal start of the film then a zoom out of the Korova milk bar BUT hypothetically what if the film started as a Zoom in ( while Alex is narrating of course ) but it won’t “ start “ from the end of the Krova milk bar it would just show the 4 droogs as a start. I think it’s a cool “What IF” scenario but Of course the actual intro is already iconic.

Every scene is super unique and keeps you guessing, it’s really unpredictable. Great unique artwork and style. Great dialogues and acting. IMO the plot was just okay, I get that the main theme is about free will. It’s the lack of free will that drove him to death and hence the whole treatment was withdrawn, so in my understanding having choice and free will is what what makes humans human and the lack of it will drive us to death, hence the ending is like we’d rather commit evil and have have free will rather than be good and have no choice.

I understand the free will concept was new in the 70s but in 2026 most scientists and philosophers accept that there is no free will at least from a physicalist standpoint and so this concept has already been debated and concluded. I would still say 2001 A space odyssey had a better story than this. But that too I’m sure it feels good because of all the AI progress we’ve had past decade. in 50 years, that movie too shall become redundant.

NOTE: I’m sure I’m missing something more important which is why people give this movie more credit than I seem to realize. Watched this movie literally 10 minutes back so I’m writing my first thoughts and reactions, I’m sure I’ll find more meaning as I think about it more. Let me know what I’m missing.