Oddly the first thing I noticed when I got to rotten tomato's was the genre:"Foreign Film". That's interesting, basically that means the Moliere, Life is Beautiful, Akira and The Host are all in the same genre here in America...

Now that I've gotten that out of my system: I'll have to give Delicatessen a shot as well, it looks like it could be good.

On another note, why don't we have a "Suggest a Movie" thread on this forum. We have a "Suggest a Song" thread... (I'm not making it, I'll feel silly. For some reason suggesting something and then doing it makes me feel silly... Boy, that could probably use some psycho-analysis as well.)

Then take a few days and read the book

Also by the same director The City of the Lost Children and Amélie.

The only thing that makes me cringe, and it does it every time with out fail, is when someone scrapes their fingernails against a flat surface, ie a chalkboard....

I get the chills and feel sick in my stomach.

That one's a bit like biting on silver foil with your fillings.

Or watching that footage of the weight lifter in the last olympics when his elbow.... eewwe!

I clicked on that video even though it kind of described it in the link, and I couldn't get it out of my head for the rest of the day!

Don't know if you've seen this video of figure skaters Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin? You can test your cringe response about two minutes in.

You might like the E-type Hearse

That hearse could only be used for *ahem* the vertically challenged. Personally I think that's one of the most depressing things I've seen in some time. If someone wanted to go and ruin a perfectly go E-Type, they could have just given it to me instead! :D

Okay, a bit more seriously, it's pretty clever :).

Welly well well well well... could someone decode the title for me? :confused:
I'm guessing orange is a veiled reference to blood maybe, but clockwork?
The mind maybe?

"A Clockwork Orange" -- meaning what?

Not much?

The Boys. This Aussie movie had some pretty strong performances and a moody soundtrack by The Necks.

Perhaps its origin was such. But i decided to don my Google hat and see what else up with one could come:

Quotation from Burgess' Nov. 1986 introduction to "A Clockwork Orange Resucked":

Some Yahoo "Answers" page (somewhere):

Alex speaking in "The 21st chapter of A Clockwork Orange":

Uh, the answer is 42......

If you want to survive out here, you've got to know where your towel is. :D

fazstp has the quote from the author above. But I think it means somewhat more than that--an orange is a natural thing--an organic thing. On the other hand, clockwork is a man-made thing. The lead character of A Clockwork Orange began as a natural thing (a very flawed natural thing), but the aversion therapy that he goes through turns him into a man-made thing unable to make decisions for himself, just going forward doing what the clockwork makes him do. Hence he is no longer natural, even if he may look natural. He is a clockwork orange.

Trevor

Ah, you beat me to the explanation.

Trevor

Speaking of people not making decisions for themselves (and rambling thread topics :o), I watched a doco the other night on Jonestown. It's pretty shocking what people will go along with when enthralled by a sociopath.

I hadn't heard of this film but it looks interesting, I'll have to watch out for it as I love aussie films, well most of 'em ... ;)

I didn't watch the Jonestown doc as I find that stuff too disturbing ...


Gotta love that Clockwork Orange teen speak :)

Quote:

Clockwork Orange Use of slang The book, narrated by Alex, contains many words in a slang argot which Burgess invented for the book, called Nadsat. It is a mix of modified Slavic words, Polari, Cockney rhyming slang, derived Russian (like "baboochka"), and words invented by Burgess himself. For instance, these terms have the following meanings in Russian - 'droog' means 'friend' ; 'korova' means 'cow'; 'golova' (gulliver) means 'head'; 'malchick' or 'malchickiwick' means 'boy'; 'soomka' means 'sack' or 'bag'; 'Bog' means 'God'; 'khorosho' means good, 'prestoopnick' means 'criminal'; 'rooker' is 'hand', 'cal' is 'crap', 'vec' is 'old man'; 'litso' is 'face'; and so on. One of Alex's doctors explains the language to a colleague as "Odd bits of old rhyming slang; a bit of gypsy talk, too. But most of the roots are Slav propaganda. Subliminal penetration." Some words are not derived from anything, but merely easy to guess, e.g. 'in-out, in-out' or 'the old in-out' means sexual intercourse. 'Cutter', however, means money, because 'cutter' rhymes with 'bread-and-butter'; this is genuine Cockney rhyming slang, which is intended to be impenetrable to outsiders (especially eavesdropping policemen).

No sociopath needed. People will go along with shocking stuff if they're told to.

Trevor