![]() ![]() The ironic celebration of evil in A Clockwork Orange disturbs the viewer deeply, but the purpose of the film isn’t to shock us it’s to provoke us into thinking more deeply about the problem of evil by forcefully confronting us with the paradox of free will. When the film does utilize weirdness, it does so shallowly and irreverently, solely in service of its intent to disturb.ĬOMMENTS: Like sex, inherently shocking imagery in film can be used well, to explore the human experience, or (more commonly) it can be used badly and exploitatively. It’s a badly made, tedious parade of revolting and nihilistic imagery with no ambition other than to shock the viewer. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Although Nekromantik is indisputably weird-not simply in its bizarre concept, but in its numerous nightmare digressions from linearity-it can’t be recommended as a viewing experience. PLOT: A necrophiliac who works for a corpse disposal service loses his job, his perverted girlfriend, and finally his mind. ![]()
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