A Clockwork Orange
Heyyy I'm back! After a tiring three days of torture in Auditorium FIB UI during 11-13 April... the first Britbash ever has finished! And the result for me? A week of bed rest! (yea yea I got gejala thypus afterward... weak me...) But it's fine... really.. I mean, I've experienced a few days where I really can't move around too far fom my bed, and the temperature of my body was around 40-42' celcius (no kidding! really!) But I really enjoyed my extra holiday during my recovery. Heeheeh...
Anyway... I spend those days to read Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange for my Film-Sastra mid term paper, and geez such a notorious novel it is, but indeed I considered it as one of the best novel I ever read. I mean, Burgess really know how to tell a story about the war between our human nature of free will and the society's morality. There's this question popped by Burgess in his novel, what makes you really sure that you are a human being with free will? how can we live without our free will? Are we human really a free being or are we just being 'controlled' by some mechanical order, in this case, a clockwork way of life; society. What if this really happen to us? What is freedom? And what is morality?
Damn, such a huge theme for a human being Burgess tries to show in his least favorite novel (yep, the sensational and his most acclaimed work in the world, A Clockwork Orange is one of his least favorite novel, haha...) This novel also rich of it's linguistic new lexicon (Burgess uses the Nadsat language, some kind of slang he inventend by combaning Russian and British 'London' English) A tip from me if you are trying to read this book: try to find the dictionary of Nadsat langage first before you read it (You can find it in wikipedia, just search for "Nadsat lexicon") However, I'll never be able to understand completely the meaning of the novel if only I didn't watch the movie by Stanley Kubrick! The movie, damn it's also awsome... I love the way Kubrick visualize the ultra-violence in the movie with such a rich theaterical elements! I mean... look at the way the characther dances along with the classical tunes... even when it's a raping act or a brawl... it's still visualized as a beauty, thank to Kubrick's genious mind. (You know, I really hates rapist, and rape act, but Kubrick really is a genious for he's able to make me fond of this ultra-violent movie, but I still hate those rapist... I hate them... End of discussion)
Have you read it? Have you watch the movie? Damn, you really have to... but if you don't like it, don't blame it on me... maybe your taste in movie or literature just sucks... haha, just kidding... (Damn, the sarcasm in A Clockwork orange really got into me! Help!)
Anyway... I spend those days to read Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange for my Film-Sastra mid term paper, and geez such a notorious novel it is, but indeed I considered it as one of the best novel I ever read. I mean, Burgess really know how to tell a story about the war between our human nature of free will and the society's morality. There's this question popped by Burgess in his novel, what makes you really sure that you are a human being with free will? how can we live without our free will? Are we human really a free being or are we just being 'controlled' by some mechanical order, in this case, a clockwork way of life; society. What if this really happen to us? What is freedom? And what is morality?
Damn, such a huge theme for a human being Burgess tries to show in his least favorite novel (yep, the sensational and his most acclaimed work in the world, A Clockwork Orange is one of his least favorite novel, haha...) This novel also rich of it's linguistic new lexicon (Burgess uses the Nadsat language, some kind of slang he inventend by combaning Russian and British 'London' English) A tip from me if you are trying to read this book: try to find the dictionary of Nadsat langage first before you read it (You can find it in wikipedia, just search for "Nadsat lexicon") However, I'll never be able to understand completely the meaning of the novel if only I didn't watch the movie by Stanley Kubrick! The movie, damn it's also awsome... I love the way Kubrick visualize the ultra-violence in the movie with such a rich theaterical elements! I mean... look at the way the characther dances along with the classical tunes... even when it's a raping act or a brawl... it's still visualized as a beauty, thank to Kubrick's genious mind. (You know, I really hates rapist, and rape act, but Kubrick really is a genious for he's able to make me fond of this ultra-violent movie, but I still hate those rapist... I hate them... End of discussion)
Have you read it? Have you watch the movie? Damn, you really have to... but if you don't like it, don't blame it on me... maybe your taste in movie or literature just sucks... haha, just kidding... (Damn, the sarcasm in A Clockwork orange really got into me! Help!)
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