Also … I loved the attack on A Clockwork Orange. “Revels in sex and violence and mocks Christian prison education. Depicts police as thugs recruited from street gangs”
The Christian pastor was actually genuinely trying to teach Alex how to control his own impulses. When Alex was offered a chance to basically brainwash the impulses away, it’s the pastor who tells him that this method is going to be dangerous and cause him more problems in the future. He uses a method very specifically not approved by, or supervised, by anyone particularly Christian to be hypnotized into feeling disgust at violence!
It inevitably does backfire, partly when, yes, street thugs he used to run with are now police officers who beat his ass. And guess what? EVERY MAJOR FUCKING POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY DOES THIS! More often than not, it’s the result of street thugs actually starting to clean up and be decent people, because they’re not dumb kids anymore. Sometimes it’s because street thugs are exactly what the police department really wants.
Anthony Burgess, the author of the novel, was a devout Christian, who wrote this book in order to explore and express his own view on the concept of forgiveness in the Christian faith. He displayed Alex as being a very violent and psychopathic individual, concerned only with the expression of his own will on all others. As bad as some might find the violence and sexual casualness of this movie, the book is “worse”! The two women he meets at the market and takes home were girls described as being no older than 10 in the book, and they were drugged and raped while unconscious. The woman seen early on about to be gang raped by another crew, that Alex and his crew interrupt? Also, described as being no older than 10 … and subsequently gang raped by Alex’s crew.
Why all of this? To establish that forgiveness for minor sins in the face of major sins is nothing. For this forgiveness to be real, to be powerful, you have to forgive some very nasty things. And notice, that even when Alex is made powerless to ever carry out such crimes again, no one forgives him, and instead take advantage of his weakness to abuse him. To drive him to suicide even. To do all the same things that they said was bad for him to do. To feel powerful the same way he established his power.
So, Conservapedia’s description is so limited, and so extremely inaccurate that I know no one there never watched it.
