Tom Mohr wrote:
Regarding "A Clockwork Orange", Iain Noble wrote:
If I'm baffled by anything it's Tom's description of the film as
'decadent' and 'appalling'. I think he's confusing depiction with
approval.
and
You might
disapprove of what something shows or says but that doesn't
Iain Noble wrote lotsa sensible stuff and:
perhaps you ought to see 'Red
Dragon' an earlier film about the first Hannibal Lecter novel with
Brian Cox as the good doctor which is rather better.
sorry, being nitpicky, but that movie was called "Manhunter", tho I believe
it was based on the
Regarding "A Clockwork Orange", Iain Noble wrote:
If I'm baffled by anything it's Tom's description of the film as
'decadent' and 'appalling'. I think he's confusing depiction with
approval.
and
You might
disapprove of what something shows or says but that doesn't mean
it's bad
In a message dated 3/10/99 11:02:32 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At best,
Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film suggests an
Animal House with bogus intellectual trappings. But the trappings--the
rationalizations and spurious
arguments--are what make it genuinely irresponsible,
