The film 'A Clockwork Orange' is one of the most controversial and brutal in film history, causing enormous uproar around the world, and threats to producer, director, and co-writer Stanley Kubrick not only at the time of the film, but years afterwards.

So when I found these Clockwork Orange tattoos it was amazing to think that someone would want to ink such a psychotic and brutal image as represented by the main character of the story named Alex.

Based on the title of the film, a clockwork orange refers to only being human on the outside, while being truly mechanical on the inside. In other words, whatever the main character did, he ended up having no feelings or remorse in connection to them.

Anyway, I don't want to get into the entire story, the point is it dealt with extraordinary psychological and disturbing issues that are still considered controversial to this day.

It was even banned in Britain for a long time because some crimes by young males were purported to be influenced by the character Alex.

Again, I'm not sure why someone would want a tattoo of the images connected to this film and content, but even though some do, the art work itself is extraordinary, and in that sense I really like it, without in any way approving of what it represented. 

One thing for sure, Stanley Kubrick and author of the book the film was based on - Anthony Burgess, made an amazing impact on those who read the book and watched the film, as it dealt with deep and disturbing psychological problems that maybe were presented in far too real of a manner.

An interesting aside to all this, was the popularity of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was played at a key part in the story, and people went and bought the music once seeing the show.

Just a strange and unique part of film and pop culture history, which evidently has inspired some to ink the Clockwork Orange history on their bodies. 

One other dark episode in the history of A Clockwork Orange is the film never showed that the character actually went into a redemptive stage toward the end, giving it a more positive and hopeful ending.

The asserted reason for this was the decision to use the American version of the book, which didn't include that ending, which the British version did. Kubrick chose to go with the American book release version rather than the British.

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