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...they turn their heads and make their paper thin headdresses vanish. And then there's the tunnel-of-legs sequence, with a long camera track at floor level passing under the opened legs of the chorus line. The film degenerates into travesty, extending the traditional fascination with bodies as clockwork. You can see just how repulsive it really is--especially when the bodies are magnified on the screen in overwhelming flesh-color...
...Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick's vision of future shock, Cinema 57, 200 Stuart St., Boston...
...more than six films that meant much on re-viewing, listing them lets me act--in theory, anyway--as a cop for the audience and scold for the hacks. (I've also limited my outlook to those films that opened in Boston between Christmases--tossing out one crowd's Clockwork Orange and another's Dirty Harry...
What a nice coincidence. Anthony Burgess's One Hand Clapping, first published in England eleven years ago, now comes to the lapsed colonies in time to benefit from the publicity for the film version of his subsequent novel A Clockwork Orange...
Both books belong to the same period in the author's richly pleated life, though it is practically useless to divide Burgess's relatively short and unusually prolific writing career into creative periods. Although light years away in style and impact, One Hand, like Clockwork, is an example of Burgess's concern that modern man has all but shut himself away from spiritual...