clockwork orange film poster design

A clockwork orange film poster design. My playful nod to the cult classic film ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Stanley Kubrick which came out in 1971.

The film caused a lot of controversy mainly due to Kubrick’s ‘glorifying violence’ as mainstream press termed it (The film being later banned in several countries). However, I’ve always seen Kubrick’s films packed with esoteric symbolism and deeper meanings as ultimately stark ‘warnings’ to society. In the famous milk bar scene, even the word ‘adrenochrome’ can be seen on the wall. Was this a warning of the ‘Epstein’ class of satanic manipulators that run our society? This subject matter resurfaced in Kubrick’s last film ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ about a society of ‘elite’ satanists that operate in secret. Kubrick died shortly after making the film.

Stanley Kubricks Danger Triggers

Kubrick had a beautiful surreal way of alerting his audience’s subconscious with deep issues or ‘danger triggers’ as I call them. Was 2001 – A space odyssey a warning about AI and smart tech? “Open the pod gate doors HAL! I’m sorry I can’t do that Dave’’, bares a chilling warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over. The Black monolith looking eerily looking like a smart device or iPhone etc.

In the Shining there is a lot of symbolism and scenes alluding to ‘The Moon landing’ of 1969 – lots of ‘conspiracy theory’ videos on YouTube poking fun at this (The phrase ‘conspiracy theorist’ was first coined by the CIA to disempower anybody that didn’t go along with the official narrative on the assassination of JFK at the time) – but if you realised Kubrick’s film methodology – no scene was without symbolism (whether Kubrick helped with the filming of this – is still open to debate but it did seem strange that there are pictures of Kubrick with CIA and US Government officials, working on what exactly? Did Kubrick feel guilty at the lie and tried to indicate this in The Shining ? . A link to just some of the film symbolism here.

Be mindful of the ‘conspiwacy theowists’ – they have a habit of turning out correct 96.66% of the time 😉 lol