A Clockwork Orange Essay

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Kubrick makes expressive use of close-ups, long shots, slow motion and perspective to give meaning to his subject. The visualization and framing the subject are important and represented by the principal character Alex in the beginning of A Clockwork Orange to demonstrate the point of view of the movie story.

Film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, which emphasizes by its repetitive patterns in narrative structure, characterization and theme. The cinematography in A Clockwork Orange film is a combination of skill and art of the motion picture by recording light and colors. There are repetitive camera movements and compositions in the film like a static frame that is executed in the same …show more content…

An intimacy can be accorded to the character’s eyes of interest a hand-held that the camera grows Alex’s face in order to build strong identification with the character. He is an individual principal know for his evil and innocently likeable. Also, a tracking shot that move through space in any direction when the camera takes distance between the character eyes and include the environment to the narrative of his story. The camera distance created between the subject and the viewer. A type of duality to the reality of his actions acting like a child and be treated like …show more content…

Alex encounters the elderly vagrant from before, who attacks him with several other friends. Two policemen who turn out to be his old friends save him. They drag Alex to the countryside, where they beat and nearly drown him. The dazed Alex wanders the countryside before coming to the home of the writer Mr. Alexander, who is now paralyzed and who does not recognize Alex as his attacker, has read about his treatment in the newspapers. The doubling effect, of this act play has much to do with his connection to music and violence. That his reaction will be replace by suffering then