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Violência e exceção em ‘Clockwork Orange’

Abstract

Through the film version, by S. Kubrick, of the Burgess’book A Clockwork Orange, the author discusses the conflict between law and violence. The initial argument is the paradoxical nature of the law, that offers herself as the control device of violence, but depends on a violent imposition of a place of exception. In this sense, the film illustrates the consequences generated by the intrusion in political field of the scientific model which excludes the exception, causing a mechanistic view that emphasizes the law as an application of coded rules. The real would feel there, according to the author, by the violent return of an exception figure represented by the protagonist.