In a message dated 3/10/99 11:02:32 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << At best, Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film suggests an Animal House with bogus intellectual trappings. But the trappings--the rationalizations and spurious arguments--are what make it genuinely irresponsible, genuinely abhorrent. >> There seems to be a bit of faulty logic here, comparing Clockwork to a film made 8 or so years later. Wouldn't Animal House have had to precede Clockwork in order for this analogy to be valid? I think that the point of this film has been completely lost on the moralists who can't see past the actions onscreen to the deeper meaning. The theme was an anti-Behavior Modification statement, and Kubrick chose to express that theme in the most graphic way he could think of. If you feel it was too much, well, art is purely subjective, isn't it? If you were apalled, then he got his point across. Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece, and will always be one of the most important films ever made. Slim
