The
film sparked outrage in Britain. The press attacked director Stanley Kubrick
for the scenes of rape and violence, claiming that the filmwas responsible for
an increase in crime. They may have had a point; according to the PBS
series Culture
Shock,
a Dutch girl was gang raped by men singing "Singing in the Rain".
Kubrick himself had banned the film. In the US, the film was recut for an 'R'
rating, as opposed to its original 'X'.
Yes, it was
rated 18 plus.
Although passed uncut for UK cinemas in December 1971,
British authorities considered the sexual violence in the film to be extreme. In March 1972, during
the trial of a fourteen-year-old male accused of the manslaughter of a
classmate, the prosecutor referred to A Clockwork Orange,
suggesting that the film had a macabre relevance to the case.[43] The film was also linked to
the murder of an elderly vagrant by a 16-year-old boy in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, who pleaded guilty
after telling police that friends had told him of the film "and the
beating up of an old boy like this one." Roger Gray QC, for the defence,
told the court that "the link between this crime and sensational
literature, particularly A Clockwork Orange, is established beyond
reasonable doubt.
1993 after losing a legal battle following an unauthorized
screening of the film.[48]
70’s, there
were drugs such as LSD and pot introduced.
Vietnam war,
65-72
Protests
1968
Heroin was
the huge addiction, war on drugs. Nixon comes in to effect.
A gang of
four teenage boys drink milk plus, which is said to be milk mixed with lsd.
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