Thursday 2 April 2015

Clockwork Orange

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 BletchleyBuckinghamshire, 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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