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The 13th punch on my Thursday Thread-Up card was the 1971 Stanley Kubrick classic, A Clockwork Orange.
The special concession item for the night was exactly what you think it would be if you've seen the film. You could consider this to be "Milk Plus" since it comes with a Halloween-themed Mahoning souvenir cup.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was about 13 years old. I was living with my dad, stepmom and stepsister in South Florida at the time, and I was just starting to become interested in movies as something more than a casual hobby, and I went through just about all of the VHS movies that my dad owned during the summer of 1993. A Clockwork Orange was one of those films. Everything about this film is a masterpiece, from the odd visuals, to the creepy synth score, to the bizarre dialogue that took me about a dozen times before I could fully understand what was being said.
The plot is also fascinating, and perhaps this isn't the takeaway that the author of the novel or the filmmaker intended, but I would be 100% in favor of the Ludovico technique if it existed. Alex DeLarge is a fascinating film character, but he's also a piece of garbage. If someone like that signs up for a program that makes them physically incapable of committing the kinds of assault, robbery, rape, and murder that got them locked up, I'm cool with that. If it makes them helpless to defend themselves from acts of vengeance taken by their victims, I'm cool with that too. That's the deal that you're getting if you sign up for Ludovico. If you think it's a bad deal, you could always stay in prison.
