"Unhinged: Alex DeLarge No. 1" 2017 It's taken me two weeks to complete this next round of images but I think it's worth the wait. Alex DeLarge, the main character in Anthony Burgess' novel "A Clockwork Orange" was a perfect subject to investigate psychotic behavior in this new series of movie icons I'm exploring. Taking stills from Stanley Kubrick's 1971 masterful adaptation, I overlaid text from the book to highlight key moments in the movie. Since the world seems to be unhinged at the moment, I thought it would be appropriate to not only observe the psychotic behavior of our current leader of the free world, but movies that explored and perhaps normalize this behavior. In " Unhinged: Norma Desmond" , I concentrated on the delusional temperament of the fading movie star. Here, I wanted to interpret Alex's lust for brutality and and his intelectual justification for it. As a metaphor for our modern day psyche...
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