They discuss Mr. Alexander's opposition to the new techniques of the ministry as depicted in 'A Clockwork Orange', and his belief that humans should not be treated as mechanical creations. The speakers also analyze the meaning behind the title of the film and the character's reaction to recognizing Alex as a victim of the inhumane technique.
There was me, that is Tamler, and my droog, that is David, and we sat in our living rooms on Skype trying to make up our rassoodocks what Stanley Kubrick's a Clockwork Orange was really about? Free will? We didn't think so. Punishment? Yeah but what about punishment? And what about the old ultraviolence - can it still shock us in the modern age? Then suddenly we viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny just, like, press record and start the podcast. Slooshy well, my brothers, slooshy well.
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