A Classic that Predates Woke But Espouses Progressivism

This is easily one of my favorite movies. I am a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick, but I have to call out the progressive ideals of such a revolutionary and notable director.

As with many of his films, Kubrick intended to highlight certain tendencies in this movie. In this case, it was the concept of a conservative, authoritarian government that would punish even the protagonist of our story to forced propaganda. It was, as some consider it, a right-wing fascist state, but these are terms best left for the academic and over-institutionalized. In reality, what Alex experiences in this movie is the definition of a collectivist totalitarian leftist state. His urges are dispensed of, at least theoretically, while his anarchistic nature is still in play, despite the mind control he experiences.

Make no mistake: This movie is leftist and built on the idea that behavioral modification is a right-wing tactic. That said, it predates the modern "woke" idea by over 30 years. It portrays a sociopath who is, in some ways very right-wing, but in others, very left-wing. The promiscuity and attacks upon the rich are deeply rooted in leftist ideology. The rejection of authority and creation of a gang independent from neo-London's oppressive rule are certainly right-wing. Overall, though, it is vey much a siren song to the equity-seeking left. Despite its very adult themes, A Clockwork Orange is a cautionary tale against the centralized government in that those in charge will use whatever means possible to change those who fight the system.

This is a movie that explores anarchism well, and finds it lacking. Whether you're a left or right anarchist, it is against absolute freedom, but it also fights against the the idea of control from the government. It is a movie built upon the idea that you should make your own decisions. For that, I applaud it.

Nowhere is it specified what kind of a dictatorship this is, not in the movie not in the book, and since the Far Left and the Far Right are extremely similar we can argue for ages about this...

The notion that the Left supports Free Will is ludicrous. It completely supports the opposite, or "you can have your damn Free Will if you must but as long as it's the same as the will of the Marxist state that you should always listen to". Sort of like Noam Chomsky and Neil deGrasse Tyson saying that "you should think for yourself" but only as long as "you think the same as we do".

Stanley Kubrick was a leftist when he made that unfunny piece of shit Doctor Strangelove, but by the time he got to Full Metal Jacket he was no longer a leftist. Read some of the stuff he said later on...

Such irony that his last movie was butchered beyond recognition by the same leftist elites whose political views he shared during the 60s, and just because that movie was coming dangerously close to exposing the Satanic, orgiastic, pedophilic tendencies of America's elites... Eyes Wide Shut was never completed, and in fact Kubrick was extremely furious with Warner Brothers for destroying his movie. If you're confused by it you are confused for a good reason: because it was never completed. The movie was about pedophilia, which already ran rampant in America's showbiz and political circles in the 90s...