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Is A clockwork orange still worth watching ?
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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I don't think the film suffers at all from excluding the final chapter.
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The redemptive ending of the book involves alex growing up and becoming bored of being evil without outside intervention, while the sort of ambiguous but sinister - "I was cured, all right" back-to-being-evil ending better fits the bleak tone of the filmSo if I could go back I'd rather see the film first, and notice what is additional in the book rather than what was removed from the film. Still I like both so either way will be good.
Burgess's thought's on the exclusion of the 21st chapter are in the foreword, here is the full book + some nice extras(pdf): https://usuaris.tinet.cat/palonso/llibres/a_clockwork_orange.pdf