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"Descending into lava lamps and nonsense." is hardly what I'd call it. Kubrick is all about subtext.
by arca_vorago 9y ago
"Descending into lava lamps and nonsense." is hardly what I'd call it. Kubrick is all about subtext.
- interfixus 9y agoI know I am supposed to find it deep and like it to the bitter end. And boy have I tried. There'a lot of Kubrick I don't get. I have actually read A Clockwork Orange, the novel, and liked it despite its Burgessian lapsed catholic babble, but I intensely dislike the movie. And don't get me started on The Shining.
- arca_vorago 9y agoWhat did you think of the ending difference between the book and the movie in ACO?
- interfixus 9y agoConflicted, actually, as I would have to aggree with the American expurgation of the last chapter from the novel, but I sort of feel I have to take the author's view as canonical - and Burgess famously disliked the redaction. Anyway, I gave up on deeper meaning in Burgess' work a long, long time ago. I still read him with great pleasure, but that's for the linguistic fireworks and his steamrolling, gutpunching flair for telling a story so you hear the sounds and smell the smells.