i loved out of blue, the carol morley film, and similarly with this, you have to just go with it. out when we were at school? yes, a clockwork orange, the adaptation of anthony burgess's novel. a young thug played brilliantlu by malcolm mcdowell. it is ultraviolence and terrorising and that is a part of the film that became notorious. the design is extraordinary, but the violence at the beginning of the film is very, very full on. what people forget is that most of the film actually happens after that, and it is to do with this thing called the ludovico technique. what if you take someone with violent urges and try and remove those violent urges? so a type of aversion therapy? exactly. the idea is that if you take away so much of a person, do theyjust become nothing more than a clockwork orange? that section of the film, which gets far less attention than the beginning which is the thing that made the film notorious, is actually the body of the film. there are lots of stories about it being banned, it was not banned in the uk. stanley kubrick asked warner bros to remove it from ci