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I was a young teen when a friend had gotten his hands on the movie A Clockwork Orange. He said they say it's a sci-fi comedy. So I went in expecting something very different than I watched that night. What I saw was cruel and sadistic and horrifying. There was no main character I could identify with. Later I found out the book had a happier ending which I guess Kubrick thought something like, "Naaah, the viewers haven't suffered enough, let's take that part out."
In any event, I had nightmares about that movie for a while. I couldn't forget the scene with Alex nauseated and forced to watch violent movies, and I found myself in the same situation, strangely forced to watch this never ending scene. Which I watched again later on a few times as a way to desensitize myself which unfortunately did not work. I even felt bad for the actor (later realized he scratched his cornea), wondering how many takes that took.
Anybody recall something similar?
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Why do you need to identify with any of the characters in order to appreciate a film?
Watching Final Destination movies as a kid is a great way to make sure you never try certain things. For me I'll never get in a tanning bed or follow close behind a log truck.
Legends of the Fall where the brother gets caught in the barbed wire. Once, must be close to 30 years ago now. Never again.
I've probably seen several films that have similar spots and didn't see similarity. That one is in there and stuck in there.
Sounds like you identify with Alex as far as the watching goes
watership Down - it was a cartoon but also a critereon film !? ... I think i was 7 when the bunny massacre happened i was just getting over it and , BAM .... Frank the rabbit and donnie darko
Sounds like you were just weren’t ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence?
No red red krovvy for him.
The acupuncture/piano wire scene in Audition. First time as an adult i had to cover my eyes for a movie.
Guy being put into a microwave in ‘Natural Born Killers’…one of two films I can think of that is more disturbing than Kubrick’s.
Don't remember that.
Yeah, me either
Yeah, during the prison riot scene.
Oh OK. It was an oven.i was wondering why they would have an industrial size microwave in a prison.
I prefer to be a fly on the wall than identify with a character. Such a boring way of looking at film.
I thought it was a great movie (and book)! There's actually two versions of the book. The one for the American audience ends like the movie, but in the British version Alex reforms on his own.
To make that scene even worse, they permanently injured Malcom McDowell’s eyes filming that scene.
Kubrick was famous for not giving a single shit about the wellbeing of the actors in his movies.
First time I saw it I was young and high on weed for one of the first times. My brain could not take it. I did not understand what I was watching and why it was so horrible. I never watched it again and I’m fine with that.
"it's not gonna suck itself" is a horrific scene from Requiem for a Dream that sticks with me to this day. My partner and I were told it was a fantastic movie, but we were just horrified by the end.
In the same vein as A Clockwork Orange, “Singing in the Rain” was a disturbing scene.
I’m not soft
The ending of Playground
I kind of hated the whole damn thing
I just read the synopsis at about your age, and I had the same reaction. I've never watched it. I'm sure I could handle it now, but I've just never wanted to because of those initial feelings.
The book was originally released in a serialised format (this was common for a lot of sci fi back then) and the original version of the book was published before the final chapter was written. Burgess then wrote the final chapter where Alex has simply grown out of all his violent urges and the book was rereleased with the final chapter added, but the movie was based on the original, incomplete version.
I always heard that the last chapter was left off the US version, not because they decided to publish it before it was complete, but because they simply didn't like what the last chapter added and preferred ending it earlier.