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Clockwork Orange | 1971 | R1982 | US One Sheet
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Clockwork Orange | 1971 | R1982 | US One Sheet

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain. The storyline is set in a near-futuristic society, late teen Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of thugs - his "droogs" - who commit acts of ultra-violence, often with sexual components, without any regard for their victims, and purely because it strikes their collective fancies. These acts are largely fuelled by drug use. Alex is a lover of music, especially that of Ludwig van Beethoven, which, when he listens to it during these acts, intensifies his...