How A Clockwork Orange set the scene for punk - BFI 🔗 🎥 🎵 🇬🇧

In the early 1970s, A Clockwork Orange offered a vision of anarchy in the UK that got under the skin of British teenagers who’d been shut out of the hippy dream. Did Stanley Kubrick predict punk?

‘The 70s were very violent; people tend to have forgotten that,’ Savage says. ‘The gloss of the swinging 60s had disappeared, and everything was sliding downhill.’