A Clockwork Orange is Burgess’ controversial dystopia satire. Sometime in the not too distant future, a society exists where teenage gangs roam the streets terrorizing entire neighborhoods. Concealing their identities by donning masks, they rape, beat, stab, and mug innocent victims, ransack and rob homes, steal cars, and torment their rival gangs. Law enforcement is ...
Stanley Kubrick’s films often focused on dehumanization and the dark side of human nature. Dehumanization was a common theme in Kubrick’s films. Kubrick commonly used this theme because he was fascinated with the dark side of human nature and not because he thought all humans were basically evil. T he best examples of his trend ...
There are certain ground rules that come with the decision to become a recluse. The most obvious one is that you should never announce that you are a recluse. Greta Garbo can be forgiven for making this tragic mistake since she had little precedent on which to go. The result of her pronouncement that she ...
In 1971, I was 9 years old and didn’t have a clue what the world was about. I’m not sure cable television had even been invented yet and my parents were still taking me to Disney movies like “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes” and “Freaky Friday”. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-teens that ...
