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In London, set in the not so distant future, Alex is the leader of gang of young hooligans who spend their time raping, taking drugs and beating. One night during his usual cruel boastings, Alex kills a woman. His mates abandon him and he is arrested by the police. He accepts being guinea pig to an experiment based on psychological conditioning which they believe could finally break his violent impulses. However the result is that he himself becomes a harmless victim to those who suffered his brutalities in the past. He is incapable of reacting and is on the brink of committing suicide, but the authorities save him and put him under an alternative cure. They make him turn violent again, but this time, he is under their control.

This is a genial and highly debated masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick. It is a metaphor of man’s innate violence that no artificial conditioning can repress. It is full of genial solutions such as the music, the “alienated” recital, the advanced settings, costume choice and innovative directive experimentations.
The poster is one of the world’s most famous: the evil expression, gleaming through the main character’s made-up face, the knife held in an over-sized hand to amplify its potential threat, and the frightening fake eye which is embroidered on his shirt cuffs, are all “disturbing” elements for the gratuitousness of violence that they symbolize, rendering Alex, a visual personification of Evil. Evil darkness is represented by a black triangular background. This is where the mind of the young man lies. The transparent body of the obscene plastic doll from the Korowo Milk Bar (milk and drug distributor) appears. The slogan “The Adventures of a young man whose principle interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven” completes the image created by Philip Castle. He is a successful advertiser, illustrator of LP covers and was among one of the authors of the celebrated Pirelli calendar in the 1970s. His most famous illustrations for cinema are A Clockwork Orange and Mars Attacks!