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...immediately recognizable. He is a true child of the near future, a freak for violence, who would understand and enthusiastically approve Charlie Manson's credo: "Do the unexpected. No sense makes sense." Yet the confounding thing, and perhaps the ultimate irony of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, is that Alex is surprisingly but undeniably engaging...
...Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel, is a merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect. It posits a world somehow gone berserk, in which there are no real alternatives, only degrees of madness. Kubrick makes the whole thing (as he did in Dr. Strangelove) chillingly and often hilariously believable. Alex, so contemptuously in control, soon becomes a victim of his own lunatic society...
...jaunty, funny, shocking piece of fiction? There have already been the international spy thriller (Tremor of Intent), the scatological novel (Enderby), the population-explosion novel (The Wanting Seed), the Third World satire (Devil of a State), the historical novel (Nothing Like the Sun), and the futuristic novel (A Clockwork Orange). Now comes MF, the biggest send-up of them all, on Claude Levi-Strauss's intellectually fashionable structural anthropology...
...After World War II, our scarecrows were grim and military," he says. "Many wore steel helmets and discarded uniforms." Then came an "American period"-mechanized scarecrows with waving arms affixed to crude clockwork. Now that Japan is more affluent, scarecrows are more elaborate. Some wear business suits; others, inspired by TV films, simulate fierce samurai warriors and angry student demonstrators...
...Nothing, actually. It's just that every nigh-like clockwork at four a.m.-I wake up, jump out of bed, and scream my lungs...