A Clockwork Orange

atmosphere of violence, rather then the brutal imagery that the audience was presented with in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Martin McDonagh presents a brutal description of violence in his play ‘The PillowMan”. “McDonagh uses violence to disrupt the spell of story-telling”.…

A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess that you may not always be certain about things. Now some people may point out problems with that claim since the first thing that people may point out is the fact that Alex does not commit a crime at the end of book this being the strongest argument that can be give. You collect all of this info from what Burgess says on page 71 “ Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so…

Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, not a typical gangster film, but a movie that combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect for other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his, by another friend, he gets kidnapped by a gang. He is kept in an abandoned school and,…

Boxing For The Win The movie "Creed" and the novel When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde are about two troubled boys. The boys both have a dream of becoming professional boxers. When they were younger they struggled and had been in Juvenile Hall. They did not know their biological parents and that have frustrated them some. They were raised by someone who had wanted to take them in that was not related to them. the novel and movie have many differences. The first difference is the boys had…

Character Background: Alex is an 18 year old boy, by the end of his prison sentence. He is 15 years old at the beginning, when he is first caught and put on trial. He is a teen in 1960 England, in what seems to be dingy and dark but full of scholars and terrific writers. Alex has sociopathic tendencies and seems to fantasize about murder and rape. He even likes to spike his milk with hallucinogenic. However, Alex is a big fan of Ludwig Van Beethoven and takes pleasure in listening to Beethoven…

In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the concept of morality can be analyzed by examining three aspects of Alex’s life that contribute to choice: environmental pressures, the notion of religious morality as seen through the Chaplain, and biological destiny, all which will reveal the absolute imperativeness of the ability to make choices in order to retain the essence of what it means to be human. “What’s it going to be then, eh?” Alex chooses to commit acts of violence against innocent…

Speech #1 Edward R. Murrow, a CBS reporter and war correspondent delivered a report from Buchenwald, Germany on April 16, 1945. He delivered this dialect upon seeing the atrocities committed by the Germans towards the Jews. He addresses the American people, describing the scene he had witnessed at this labor camp, which he found the scene to be so unbelievable that he is rendered speechless many times through out his speech. Murrow’s outrage is so apparent through-out his account, that it is…

The gang enters the Chen building, sneaks into a titanium vault and sees rows and rows of shelves filled with every volume of the Liao Zhai. Chen enters the vault and grabs Mia as a hostage, demanding him to leave the Imperial Sword. Then, they run to another floor of the chamber, and sees all kinds of Liao Zhai’s ghosts. They meet Chen again, and Chen reveals his plan to destroy Americans because his son died by overdosing drugs and he believes the Americans caused all these, by providing…

There’s something beautiful about a film that has the power to upset you. ‘Nightcrawler’ is a dark, crime-action thriller about the news filming industry. These nocturnal videographers dubbed “Nightcrawlers” venture out into the streets of LA to capture the most riveting crime scene footage which they later sell to the highest paying news station. Although the film ends on an emotionally upsetting note, it’s dramatic escapade through LA’s landscape delivers great character development, an…

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein This quote relates to the novel Forbidden City and how the main character, Alex Jackson, changed through his experiences. He then used how he changed to his advantage and changed the world around him. Before his trip to China, Alex is arrogant about war and critical when it comes to politics. In China, he begins to change through experiences and realizations. After…