Movie Notes: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange depicts a not-so-distant future in a technologically advanced society that has undergone crippling moral decay. It’s a dystopia of rampant crime, medical experimentation, and stifling bureaucracy. This isn’t the antiseptic, technologically awe-inspiring future of Kubrick’s visionary 2001. Alex (Malcom MacDowell) is a hoodlum of the worst kind, whom if asked for a reason for his heinous crimes would likely claim “boredom.”