Whenever i read on forums theres some quasi-philosiphical answer or "youre to dumb to know".
So please tell me, what the hell am i missing that everyone else notices?

Hmm, I'd say it's about violence and its different kinds in society. It's been a while since I have seen it but isn't there a parallel between his violence and the government's?

the definition of "goodness" and outrage against behavioural psychology.

It's about vaginas and the development and treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder with regards to vaginas. Beethoven's symphonies represent clitoral stimulation.

Imago said:

It all makes sense to me now!

He was a RAPIST and he gets deprogramed. It was rated X in the movies. The book has German Translations in the back of it. I found it hard to read and the movie much easier.

MRGee said:

Whoa. I've only seen parts of this movie but not the whole thing before....seems gruesome.

Ultraviolence!

sex with frozen bananas

The ol' in & out.

if i remember, it's about a gang of violent hoodlums who wreak bloody mayhem on a town, including a nasty bit where they rape a woman to death in front of her broken husband while playing beethoven's symphony.

police catch the hoodlums, try them and sentence them to rehabilitation. hoodlums are 'rehabilitated' through powerful negative conditioning, and released back into society.

the leader hoodlum, rehabilitated, happens upon the man broken in his earlier attack, who recognizes him and inflicts a vigilante justice by torturing hrehabilitated leader hoodlum, thereby becoming that which he once suffered from.

to my way of thinking, it is about the extreme irony that 'justice' can sometimes be and the etenal question of redemption

I just finished reading this thing like ten minutes ago

TheMightyCelestial said:

Gimmesomehorns said:

the movie or the book?

ufoclub said:

The movie, i kinda like it, its well done, but i dont get the overall message, just a llittle hint of it.

Gimmesomehorns said:

It's the kind of movie that you have to watch over and over and then see what you are thinking in your own head. It doesn't wear it's themes conventionally (doesn't have normal music cues to direct your emotions), but if you map out the story, it becomes obvious what it's about.

XxAxX said:

excellent summation!!

Is a remake in the works?

noimageatall said:

If it is, I really hope they use the last chapter

noimageatall said:

Can't image someone would tackle it.

SUPRMAN said:

Right. I mean, they'd probably make it even more violent than it already was, and it'd end up being something like A Clockwork Spit on Your Grave Saw VI.

noimageatall said:

God I love this flick!!! I'mma have to rewatch it now too...

Alej said: