So is that a milk bar....my loyal droogies? I don't like the video. Not enough rape, really. It's like if someone made a queer(strange) music video tribute of Pulp Fiction and Zed didn't sodomize(homosexual) someone.
... You realize that Blur is one of the most popular bands worldwide, correct? And iirc, there's only 2 rape scenes in CO, one of which was interrupted.
I hadn't heard of them either actually. I did do my research and find it on youtube though. Not my bag. CO is so successful because of the brutality. There may only be two rape scenes, but c'mon, it is some of the most graphic deranged **** in film. Especially for it's time. Kubrik knows how to lay story telling onto celluloid, but how intense his images is his hallmark. In my book, the most memorable scene from the movie is the reeducation... which also features horrific imagery, just a bit more intelligent in how it is renditioned.
It's based off of one of the most famous philosophical books of the time... It was successful before Kubrik. If you identify, and more, revel in the more animalistic scenes, well... The brutality is not something that should be taken at face value, far from. It's an analogue, a metaphor for something harder to conceptualize, more ephemeral in nature... The human psyche. You could live your life like Alex and his droogs, nihilistic and base, never thinking beyond the next high, or next fulfillment of carnal lust. This, obviously, is a self-destructive lifestyle, obviously so. Or, on the flip side, you can utterly and completely destroy your ability to do wrong. Granted, you'd become a model citizen, but at the cost of your own free will. No, the story is a message of moderation. Either extreme will destroy you, but the middle path is the road to happiness.
