Dumb, no. Distasteful, yes, but how could it be otherwise given the content. Highly rated by some but denounced by just as many, and the film continues to have detractors who, clpckwork acknowledging Kubrick's mastery, take exception to this treatment. It was as underrated as overrated. Can I come in and use your https://digitales.com.au/blog/wp-content/custom/african-slaves-during-the-nineteenth-century/popular-mechanics-raymond-carver-analysis.php
The whole sequence is deeply distasteful. Violent sociopaths like Alex and his friends should simply be killed. But how could it be tasteful, especially when most of the film is from Alex's subjectivity? Alex is a crazy guy, and the whole film is seen through his predatory eyes.
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He isn't a man of taste by conventional standards though he does think rather highly of himself as an aesthete who reveres the genius of Beethoven. As he sees it, he's cut above the rest, a natural leader. He is anti-christ, and his droogs are merely anti-disciples. Also, he sees himself as an artist of mayhem. There is flamboyance to his aggression, a vision to the madness. Alex feels as a natural aristocrat, a pop-Nietzschean star of the streets who makes up his own rules.
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No wonder Kubrick thought of casting Mick Jagger in the role. Sympathy for the Devil. That Alex should be locked up or executed reads like a non-sequitur. It's social commentary unrelated to the film and its purpose.
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I don't know of Kubrick's stance on justice and capital punishment, but the film is not about what kind of punishment should be meted out to people like Alex. I highly doubt Kubrick was cheering on the violence or thought the Alexes of the world should be treated leniently; after all, he led a life not unlike that of the writer whose home is invaded. Rather, he features an horrific act from both objective and subjective modes, which makes the scene all the more disorienting. On theme from a clockwork orange one hand, Kubrick just watches and takes note in 'cinema verite' style; it's like reportage of rape done by the Maysles Brothers.
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In being fiendishly mean and nasty, they were proving a point, paving the way for good guys to put things to right. That element made violence in older movies less disturbing and more comforting. Plenty of villains act nastily in Cecil B.]
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