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So I ended up finishing The Clockwork Orange and to say the least, it was creepy. It stayed with me for days. I wasn't really freaked out, but I just kept thinking about the different events the main character Alex went through. I was upset when he was being forced to watch those videos to make him sick and the background music was his favorite music.
Classical Music. I would hate losing a love for music like that. I would hate becoming violently ill from listening to music. And then towards the end of the book, he was tortured by classical music until he jumped out the window. He woke up and was cured of his correction and could listen to classical music again. I was relieved.
wow thats really weird! but im really glad it got better in the end. I wouldnt ever be able to lose love for music.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great book and an even better movie, they did a great job transferring everything that had happened in the book over to the movie.
ReplyDeleteDid you happen to watch this week's episode of the TV show Alcatraz? This is a show on ABC which has this bizarre premise that the former inmates of Alcatraz have somehow made it to present day, and there is this special task force rounding them up. This week's episode featured the story of an innocent man turned into a criminal by exposing him to violent images, music, and I think some drugs. It was disturbing, and it reminds me of this story's premise. Yet, Catch 22 is the opposite: changing a man from violent to non-violent. Do you think such behavioral conditioning is possible? Can we be trained like Pavlovian dogs?
ReplyDeleteWow. That sounds brutal! I've been hearing alot of the same thing about this book. 'Creepy' and 'Disturbing'. Maybe I'll rethink reading it. And forget watching the movie! Glad the end turned out well for ya
ReplyDeleteUsing what we once loved as a weapon is sick and twisted. How do we fight a war if it goes psychological like that? Using our comforts as a tool to destory us? Makes me wonder if modern warfare will someday go to those extremes.
ReplyDeleteOk this book sounds weird. He is forced to lose his love of classical music and then he is able to listen to classical music again. What is the point? Why did he have to give it up in the first place?
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds messed up. On Cathy Olsens post I would like to say that if that guy was changed into who he is today by being exposed to voilent stuff what about kids these days who on a dayly basis play violent video games, decensotizing them to violence??? (ps huge fan of violent video games regardless.)
ReplyDelete@Rosebud585...excellent point. I don't think video games does desensitize kids. My son plays them all the time and he is the most non-violent person I have ever met. The method in the movie and the book is a much different approach than playing a game.
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