A Clockwork Orange (the movie)

[AniamL]

Don't read this if you haven't seen the movie. Go watch it and come back.


I watched this movie a few months ago (still consider it one of the most well-produced movies I've ever seen, although the plot is kind of disturbing) and have been holding this question for an intelligent audience. Anyway, I was watching it with 10 or 12 schoolmates, and at the end of the movie, when Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was played, just before the main character jumps out the window, I and two other people watching left the room with our hands plugging our ears... while the rest of the kids looked at us strangely. My ears were ringing and I felt dizzy... my brain was buzzing and I was very uncomfortable, and apparently the other two kids felt the same way. There was something about the song that drove us as crazy as it did the main character. Were we just so into the movie that we took the role of the main character, or did the director actually superimpose a high-pitched shrieking noise on the Ninth and only we, the musicians, noticed it? Hopefully one of you has seen the movie, because this has been bugging me.