A Clockwork Orange carved a path for British cinema | IRVINE WELSH | TIFF 2018
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Channel: TIFF · 2018 · Film & Animation
Irvine Welsh explains why A Clockwork Orange is the quintessential British film. Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He is the author of Trainspotting, which was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and eight novels and four books of shorter fiction. 136 minutes English Stanley Kubrick followed up his huge success with 2001 with a markedly different vision of the near-future: an adaptation of Anthony Burgess' notorious novel, set in a London where gangs of teenage "droogs" rob, rape, and kill with abandon while an iron-fisted state practices its own form of violence through regimentation and brainwashing. When vicious and erudite head droog Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is sentenced to prison after a brutal murder, he willingly becomes a guinea pig in an experiment designed to purge him of his violent impulses. Assailed at the time for its supposed glorification of violence, A Clockwork Orange is now regarded as one of cinema's definitive imaginings of a dystopian future. http://tiff.net
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