journal #20

Posted on April 10, 2014 by jannile williams

In clockwork orange music contributed to the understanding of alex’s mind. He saw his attacks as some sort of play, the music validated the violent acts in his mind. I notice that the entire time he was assulting the married couple he was singing. Attacking them as if the were instruments accompanying the song. The blood and screams contributing to the theatrics. Then he goes home and he has Beethoven playing and envisioning himself in a world were he is being doted on by naked women.
The music measured the changes in his life. It’s interesting that they condition him to hate the one thing he loved, it was as if he was rejecting himself. He was just a shell of his former being, he couldn’t defend himself when he was getting attacked all he could do was give in. Music could’ve been his undoing, but he just ends up in the hospital. In the end of it all he is back to the same person he started as in the beginning.

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2 Responses to journal #20

  1. Tingting Chen says:
    April 24, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    I agree with you that the “singing in the rain” and Beethoven’s “Glorious Night” had great influence on this film. I think “Glorious Night”symbolized Alex’s violent desire. when doctors conditioned him to hate the music, they simultaneously conditioned him to detest his own desires.

  2. Peter Kang says:
    April 27, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    The musics in the movie were used for many significant reasons and I think this is why I was attracted to this movie. The use of the music in the movie did much more than setting the mood for the audience. It was very appropriate and if it wasn’t for the music, the movie would have been much different not because of the change in mood. The music itself gave many messages as you said, showing how Alex thought of the world.

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