Originally posted by Mairuzu
yea, you usually have to watch the whole movie in order to see theunfolding of the plot stoned
Originally posted by omgchos
Not true..... I got the entire plot of madagascar just by watching the preview. And it was still enjoyable. Y doesn't someone just tell me the goddamn story already. Once i know where the movie is leading i might wanna go back and watch it. But from what i saw it was gonna be like a metronome, just repeating itself.
Spoiler:
Narrated by Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), the film opens on Alex and his droogs partaking of narcotic-spiked milk at the Korova Milk Bar prior to an evening of "the old ultra-violence". They proceed to beat up an elderly vagrant under a motorway and interupt an attempted gang rape of a woman by a rival gang led by Billyboy[2] (Richard Connaught). They subsequently get in a brawl with their rivals. Upon hearing the sounds of police sirens, the gang flees, stealing a car and driving into the countryside. They then gain entry to the home of Mr. Alexander, a writer, under false pretenses and assault him while violently raping his wife, all while Alex sings "Singin' in the Rain". When they return to the milk bar, Alex chides Dim (Warren Clarke), one of his droogs, when he criticizes the work of Beethoven, an artist Alex admires.The next day, after skipping school and ignoring the concerns of Mr. Deltoid (Aubrey Morris), a social worker who may have sexual feelings for him, Alex regroups with his droogs who insist on running the gang in a different manner that entails more ambitious crimes. As they walk by a canal, Alex turns and attacks his droogs to re-establish his leadership. That night, the gang attempts to burgle the home of a "cat lady" (Miriam Karlin) that runs a health farm. In the process, she gets into a fight with Alex, and Alex mortally wounds her with a phallus-shaped statue. As he attempts to flee as the police arrive, his droogs smash a glass bottle across his face, wounding him and leave him to be arrested. During his interrogation, Alex is told by Mr. Deltoid that he is now a murderer as the cat lady died from her injuries.
In prison, Alex becomes friends with the chaplain and takes a keen interest in the Bible, but primarily on the more violent characters. When the Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp) arrives at the prison looking for volunteers for the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals, Alex eagerly steps forward. At the Ludovico facility, Alex is placed in a straitjacket and forced to watch films containing scenes of extreme violence while being given drugs to induce reactions of revulsion. The films include one of real scenes in Nazi Germany, which includes a soundtrack of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Alex realizes this will likely condition him against Beethoven's music and makes an agonized though unsuccessful attempt to have the treatment end prematurely before the conditioning sets in. After the treatment is finished, Alex's reformed behavior is demonstrated for the audience: he is unable to respond back to an actor (John Clive) shouting insults and picking a fight with him, and a feeling of sickness attacks him when he is presented with a young naked woman who sexually arouses him. The Minister declares Alex to be cured, but the chaplain asserts that Alex no longer has any free will.
Alex is let free from prison two years after his sentencing. He finds his parents have rented out his room, leaving him on his own. Alex comes across the vagrant he had assaulted before the treatment, who calls in his friends and beat up Alex. Two policemen arrive to break up the fight, but Alex discovers them to be his former droogs, and the two beat him up and drag him out to the countryside as revenge. Battered and bruised, Alex manages to escape and wanders to the home of Mr. Alexander, who takes Alex in, aware that he had undergone the Ludovico treatment but does not recognize him from two years prior, due to Alex wearing a mask at the time. Mr. Alexander tends to Alex's wounds, but when Alex sings "Singin' in the Rain" while taking a bath, the memories of his assault return. Mr. Alexander locks Alex in the upper floor of his home and plays Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at full volume through a powerful stereo on the floor below, knowing that the Ludovico treatment will cause immense pain to Alex. Alex frees himself from the torture by throwing himself out of the room's window.
Alex recovers consciousness to find himself in traction, with dreams about doctors messing around inside his head. Through a series of psychological tests, Alex finds he no longer has a revulsion to violence. The Minister of the Interior comes to Alex and apologizes for subjecting him to the treatment, and informs him that Mr. Alexander has been arrested. The Minister then offers Alex an important government job and as a show of goodwill, has a stereo wheeled to his bedside playing Beethoven's Ninth. Realising that he has no adverse reaction to the music but instead images of sexual pleasures, Alex states "I was cured all right!"
Originally posted by omgchosits about a drug they use to "cure" violent people by making them feel majorly sick whenever they see/do violence, great movie
Not true..... I got the entire plot of madagascar just by watching the preview. And it was still enjoyable. Y doesn't someone just tell me the goddamn story already. Once i know where the movie is leading i might wanna go back and watch it. But from what i saw it was gonna be like a metronome, just repeating itself.
you should see how it all goes down you stupid ***** ****
Originally posted by Röland
Calm down, ****.I'm not telling you to like Clockwork or The Godfather, I'm just saying it's kind of stupid to say a movie sucks or you hate it if you only watch 10 minutes of it.
Originally posted by omgchos
Not true..... I got the entire plot of madagascar just by watching the preview. And it was still enjoyable. Y doesn't someone just tell me the goddamn story already. Once i know where the movie is leading i might wanna go back and watch it. But from what i saw it was gonna be like a metronome, just repeating itself.
Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
its a little weird i admit and you feel like turning it off at times but in the end you cant
its like watching a car crash