This is interesting because it actually explains what I think can (sometimes) be Fincher's fatal flaw where he ends up right between the two extremes and I don't feel like he's letting me "decide" anything - I just feel like I'm getting completely muddled communication. https://twitter.com/RealEOC/status/1120792722615488512 …
I don't think it's that at all, to be frank. I wrote about this with The Joker. It's a power fantasy. When you don't care about anyone and can take, and when you can't be hurt or be taken from (cause you dont care about anything) - you have all the power.
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I do think Alex is engaging in a power fantasy, but I also think he's slyly aware everyone in the film is. No one in the film cares about anyone, really. The droogs, the parents, the creepy principal, the police, the government all tacitly condone violence/sexual lunacy.
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I think Alex sort of just finds it all hilarious and goes with it as an ironic performance: now, this is just my interpretation of his character/the film. But I always sort of think it's a flaw in the film. People like Alex are actually more like The Joker you talk about...
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I hate to say it, but I think Kubrick somewhat agreed with Alex? Not that he's like him at all, but that he thought it was all fucked up and that a character like Alex is just ironically mocking it. In reality, he's just like any of these right wing morons: has selective vision.
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