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Thamesmead - A Clockwork Orange
Hoovooloo Started conversation Sep 13, 2002
When Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" was re-released a couple of years ago, I heard an American critic on Radio 4 talking about the movie.
She remembered how impressed she'd been with the stark, depressing sets Kubrick had constructed to show the area where Alex lived - the brutal architecture of the housing, the hideous colours and textures which created an oppressive atmosphere totally in tune with the rest of the movie.
She also remembered how she'd mentioned this to a British critic, and he'd gone "What sets? Oh, you mean Thamesmead." She found it incredible that these were not some science fiction vision of a near future dystopia - they were real life housing areas with real people living in them.
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