Some thoughts on the Sator Square

Recently I watched a series of tremendous videos on YouTube. 'Bizarro World' is a collaboration between 'Zenith of the Alpha' and 'WilliaM ƧullivaИ' and although it left my head spinning with both the connections it made and the beautifully put together editing, it's well worth a watch.

These videos put me on to the Sator Square, in fact there may have been another that first got me thinking in this way, but when I went back to look there's so many of them, here's one interpretation for instance from Ryan Seven. There are far more now since the recent Christopher Nolan movie 'Tenet' which  appears to have been written around the square, starts off in an Opera, they search for a man called Arepo, Villain called Sator, his organisation Rotas, the protagonists Tenet. etc. So this thing, for one reason or another has been brought to the attention of the human consciousness once again.

With so many looking at this for so long I don't expect any of my ideas to be original, but there were a couple of strong intuitions I got when looking at the image and I wanted to share them.  Here's the Square in question, this one featured on the Wiki page

Zenith and William's videos get a series of connections from the square which are too numerous to summarise. I've also been talking with Dan aka farmingfromscratch, he's also done a couple of decodes of this square. We both saw the suggestion of a square and compass in the carving of the 'A' letter and he went on to superimpose the shape over the square. 

The Nolan movie features the reversal of time. There are two reversed S letters at the top left and bottom right of the square. This suggests a connection and perhaps also the theme of reversal. If you draw a line connecting the S's it does a couple of things, maybe imperfectly, but symbolically at least the same line of direction can turn each of the S's into 8's. 

The broken lines above hopefully also demonstrate how the angles of the repeated R letters also suggest this line?  Here it is unbroken, not perfectly aligning, but perhaps near enough given the vagaries of stonework...

Two 8's is highly suggestive of Back to the Future. It's therefore interesting, to me at least, that the English Ordinal word value of SRNRS is:

Now I realise using English Ordinal on a square that predates modern English is a bit nuts, but, hey, have you seen the rest of this blog?  Suffice to say I think the approach of someone like Antony Morrison who uses the Greek cipher in this video is far more logical, but in a world of Mandela effects all options are now on the table. If Dolly has no braces in Moonraker, then ancient latin stonework may have meanings in English. So there!

In addition to creating two 8's, the line crosses the N making it into a shape very akin to the Extinction Rebellion hourglass, albeit inverted from that picture. Similar also to the Meta symbol recently adopted by the company formerly known as Facebook. Thanks to the very astute gaze of 'Above is Below' I know that this shape forms the rune Dagaz (7 minutes in on the above link but watch the entire video if you can) and can be found in the Skull and Bones crossed bones, the crossed swords in Freemasonry and heraldry and likely many other places. Dagaz means Daylight. Incidentally AIB has also made a great video about the Nolan Tenet movie. She only touches on the square briefly, but makes a lot of other interesting connections. 

That X shape also forms the St Andrews Cross, which is found on many a flag or other symbol of interest. It can also be found on the zodiac in the form of the mutable cross, which makes me wonder what the impact would be of superimposing the Mutable, Fixed and Cardinal crosses on the square? I think Zenith and William have more than covered what would be the fixed cross in their videos:

The Mutable cross gives us:

Tunning those numbers adds rppr, we won't duplicate the central N. That generates the 156 which is featured in video 3 of Zenith and William's Bizarro World series and which they point out is the running time of Back to the Future:

It's 660 in Hebrew Gematria. 

This is the Cardinal:

Running the numbers and the 44 and 55 jump out:

Another variation however suggested itself when I saw ET emanating North, South, East and West from the central N of the square.  In the movie, ET is lost, cut off from his world and he needs to 'phone home'. Maybe we're ET and we're trying to get back to balance as Dan often says. In which case we lose the bottom ET from the diagram and are left with a 118 which is a number soaked in symbology of one form or another:

Looking at it I wonder if the reverse reduction  of 44 suggests that spiritually we need to unite the sundered divine feminine as represented in the Chi-Rho and form the true Cardinal Crosss, turn that 44 to 88 and at that point Doc Brown tells us that 'we're gonna see some serious shit'.

Not that shit doesn't appear pretty serious already...

Thanks to anyone that's made their way through the above. Apologies for the lack of a Clockwork December, illness and another pc issue struck. ETA on that, for completion purposes alone is sometime in the near future, apocalypse permitting :)

A Clockwork November

This one is 'fashionably late' but sends its apologies... As ever, these clockwork posts are a supporting article for Blogo's ongoing work at The Hermetics Lessons blog. 

As I'm late, I'll post the syncs below and will maybe come back to tidy things up. I don't think my legions of followers (Google Spider and Adbot) will protest overmuch. 

We start November at the Alexander residence, where Mr A has realised Alex is his former assailant. On the 13th Alex slumps after being drugged. He awakens in a room where Beethoven's ninth is played until he attempts suicide by leaping from a window at around 21st November. He awakens in hospital around the 24th where he's reunited with Pa and Em. The month ends with visit from Dr Taylor his new psychiatrist.   Julli Kearns shot by shot analysis is as brilliant as ever and adds more than I could possibly hope to cover. 

ALEX

Your wife, sir? Has she gone away?

MR. ALEXANDER

1st No. She's dead!

ALEX

I'm sorry to hear about that, sir.

His face contorted in rage.

MR. ALEXANDER

She was very badly raped, you see. We were

assaulted by a gang of vicious young

hooligans in this house, in this very room

you're sitting in now. I was left a

helpless cripple. The doctors said it was

Pneumonia, because it happened some months

later during the 'flu 2 epidemic. The

doctors told me it was Pneumonia, but I

knew what it was. A victim of the modern

age, poor, poor girl.

Suddenly his mood changes. He wheels right up to Alex.

MR. ALEXANDER

And now you, another victim of the modern

age. But you can be helped. 3 I phoned some

friends while you were having a bath.

ALEX

Phoned some friends, sir?

MR. ALEXANDER

Yes. They want to help.

ALEX

Help me, sir?

MR. ALEXANDER

Help you.

ALEX

Who are they, sir?

MR. ALEXANDER

They're very, very important people and

they're interested in you.

Bell rings. Julian rises,

MR. ALEXANDER

Julian. This will be these 4 people now.

Alex gets up.

ALEX

Look, sir. I'm sorry to have troubled you.

I think I ought to be going, sir.

Julian bars the way.

MR. ALEXANDER

No, no my boy. No trouble at all.

Alex slowly sits.

MR. ALEXANDER

5 Have another glass of wine.

He pours. Alex picks up glass and takes a drink.

INT. "HOME" – NIGHT

Dolin and Rubinstein enter with Julian.

DOLIN

(genial)

Hullo, Frank.

MR. ALEXANDER

Good evening, sir.

RUBINSTEIN

Frank.

DOLIN

So this is the young man?

ALEX

6 How do you do, sir?

DOLIN

Hullo.

ALEX

Missus. Very pleased to meet you.

RUBINSTEIN

Hullo.

DOLIN

I hope you forgive us for coming over at

this ungodly hour, but we heard from Frank

that you were in some trouble so we came

over to see if we could be of any help.

ALEX

Very kind of you, sir. Thank you very

much.

DOLIN

I understand that you had a rather

unfortunate encounter with the Police

tonight.

ALEX

Yes, sir. I suppose you might call it

that, sir.

DOLIN

Hahaha, 7 and how are you feeling now?

ALEX

Much better, thank you, sir.

DOLIN

Feel like talking to us. Answering a few

questions?

ALEX

Fine, sir 8 , fine.

DOLIN

Well, as I've said, we've heard about you.

We are interested in your case. We want to

help you.

ALEX

Thank you very much, sir.

DOLIN

But first we'd like to find out a few

things about you.

ALEX

What would you like to know, sir?

DOLIN

Well, shall we get down to it?

ALEX

Yes, sir.

Rubinstein takes out a notebook.

RUBINSTEIN

The newspapers mentioned that in addition

to your being conditioned against acts of

sex and violence, you've inadvertently

been conditioned against music.

ALEX

Well, er, I think that was something that

they hadn't planned for,9 you see, Missus,

I'm very fond of music and always have

been, especially Beethoven, Ludwig van...

Beethoven. B... E... E...

He leans over and looks at her writing in notebook.

RUBINSTEIN

It's alright, thank you.

ALEX

And it just so happened that while they

were showing me a particularly bad film,

of like a concentration camp, the

background music was playing Beethoven.

RUBINSTEIN

So 10 now you have the same reaction to music

as you do to sex and violence?

ALEX

Oh well, it's... it's not all music you

see, Missus. It's just the 9th.

RUBINSTEIN

You mean Beethoven's 9th Symphony?

ALEX

That's right. Er... I can't listen to the

9th any more at all. When I hear the 9th,

I get like this funny feeling.

RUBINSTEIN

When you say this funny feeling, you mean

the state of mind brought on by the

treatment they gave you?

ALEX

That is correct, sir. And then all I can

think about is 11 like trying to snuff it.

RUBINSTEIN

I beg your pardon?

ALEX

Snuff it, sir... um... death, I mean,

missus... Er... I just want to die

peacefully like with no... pain.

RUBINSTEIN

Do you feel that way now?

ALEX

Um... oh no, sir, not exactly, I still

feel very miserable, 12 very much down in

spirits.

RUBINSTEIN

Do you still feel suicidal?

ALEX

Um... well, put it this way... I feel very

low in myself. I can't see much in the

future, and I feel that any second

something terrible is going to happen to 

                                                                             me. 13                                                                              

He pitches forward, face into the plate of spaghetti.

RUBINSTEIN

Well done, Frank. Julian, get the car, 14

will you please?

INT. HI-FI ROOM – DAWN

Alexander sits looking up. Rubinstein, Julian and Dolin also

listening to Beethoven played loudly on tape recorder.

INT. DOLIN'S HOUSE – PRISONER BEDROOM – DAY

The 9th Symphony booming up through the floor.

Alex slowly regains consciousness.

ALEX (V.O.)

I woke up. 15 The pain and sickness all over

me like an animal. Then I realised what it

was. The music 16 coming up from the floor

was our old friend, Ludwig van and the

dreaded 9th Symphony.

He staggers to the door. It is locked. He kicks and tugs the door.

ALEX

Open the door... 17 turn it off... turn it

off. 18 - 20

CUT TO:

THE BILLIARD ROOM BELOW

Hi-Fi gear laid out on the table. Large speakers facing upwards.

Mr. Alexander trembles and twitches. He is now completely mad. The

others merely wait, coolly.

INT. DOLIN'S HOUSE – PRISONER BEDROOM – DAY

Alex on his knees. His hands cupped over his ears, banging his

head on the floor.

Then he stops and slowly straightens up, staring at the window.

ALEX (V.O.)

Suddenly I viddied what I had to do, and

what I had wanted to do – and that was to

21 do myself in, to snuff it, to blast off

forever out of this wicked cruel world.

One moment of pain perhaps and then sleep

– forever and ever and ever.22

EXT. WINDOW – DAWC

Alex leaps out of the window.

INT. HOSPITAL WARD

Alex in bed. Camera slowly tracks along length of his body.

Everything is bandages and plaster splints, wire cages, blood

drips.

ALEX (V.O.)

I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard

but I did not snuff it,  23 oh no. if I had

snuffed it, I would not be here to tell

what I have told. I came back to life,

after a long, black, black gap of what

might have been a million years.24

We hear Alex moan, and then another moan. Alex and the other – a

few times.

Suddenly, some curtains which have been drawn around another bed

in the ward are parted, and a nurse hurries to Alex, hastily

buttoning up her uniform. She is trailed by a young Intern

fumbling with his trousers.

NURSE

25 Oh, he's recovered conscienceness, Doctor.

25 -26 Newspaper montage 'Alex recovered'

INT. HOSPITAL – DAY

Em and Pee sitting around the bed.

PEE

28 Hullo, lad.

EM

Hullo, son, how are you?

PEE

Are you feeling better?

ALEX

What gives, O myee P and Em, what makes

you think you are welcome?

Em sobs. Pee comforts her.

PEE

There, there mother, it's alright. He

doesn't mean it. You were in the papers

again, son. It said they had done great

wrong to you. 29 It said how the Government

drove you to try and do yourself in... and

when you think about it, son... maybe it

was our fault too in a way... your home's

your home when it's all said and done,

 30 son.

Em sobs.

INT. HOSPITAL

Psychiatrist wheels trolley to Alex's bed. He is sitting up.

ALEX

Good morning, Missus.

DR. TAYLOR

How are you feeling today?

ALEX

Fine. Fine.

DR. TAYLOR

1st December Good. I'm doctor Taylor.

ALEX

I haven't seen you before.

DR. TAYLOR

I'm your Psychiatrist.

ALEX

Psychiatrist? Huh, do I need one?

 

A Clockwork October

This is a supporting article for the work underway at The Hermetic Lessons blog. 

October begins with Alex in the midst of his unpleasant encounter with his former Droogs. Fleeing from his near drowning, he finds himself back at the Alexander home and he will spend the rest of the month at the scene of an earlier crime. Part 7 of Julli Kearns shot-by-shot analysis takes you through the action, find the date syncs for October within the script below. 

Bath torture scene 1-2 October

Alexander home exterior3-4 October

Alexander interior 5-31st October

Day by day synchronisation

DIM

This is to make sure you stay cured.

Georgie hits Alex in the stomach with his blackjack. Then, they

push his head under the water and methodically start to beat him

1with their blackjacks.

2 After a full minute of this, they drag him out, halt-drowned,

DIM

(laughing)

Be viddying you some more, some time Alex.

 EXT. "HOME" – NIGHT – HEAVY RAIN

Alex stumbles up the road to the entrance gate.

ALEX (V.O.)

Where was I to go, who had no home and no

money. I cried for meself, 3 Home, Home,

Home. It was Home I was wanting and it was

Home I came to, brothers, not realising in

the state I was in,4  where I was and had

been before.

Alex stumbles and crawls to the door.5 

INT. "HOME" – NIGHT

Mr. Alexander at his typewriter. 6

Julian a 6'4" – heavyweight weight-lifter lies across an exercise

bench working with bar-bells.

The door bell rings.

MR. ALEXANDER

Who on earth could that be?

JULIAN

7 I'll see who it is.

He goes to the door.

JULIAN

Yes, what is it?

No reply. He opens the door. Alex falls into the hall.

ALEX

(barely audible)

Help. Help me... Help me... Police.8

Julian picks him up like a child and carries him into the living

room.

9 INT. "HOME" – LIVING ROOM – NIGHT

ALEX (V.O.)

And would you believe it, O my brothers

and only friends, there was your faithful

Narrator being held helpless,10 like a babe

in arms, and suddenly realising where I

was and why HOME on the gate had looked so

familiar. But I knew I was safe. I knew he

would not rememeber me for, in those

carefree days, I and my so-called droogs

wore our maskies which were like real

11 horrorshow disguises.

JULIAN

 Frank, I think this young man needs help.

MR. ALEXANDER

Dear, dear, dear. Whatever happened to

you, my boy?

Mr. Alexander, now confined to a wheelchair, pushes himself away

from his desk, and rolls up to Julian. The water drips off Alex's

clothes. They look at each other.

ALEX

The police... The horrible ghastly Police.

They beat me up, sir. The Police beat me

up, sir.

Mr. Alexander stares at him. It becomes aparent he is insane.

MR. ALEXANDER

12 I know who you are! Isn't it your picture

in the newspapers? Didn't I see you this

morning on the video? Are you not the poor

victim of this horrible new technique?

ALEX

Yes, sir, that's exactly who I am, sir...

and what I am... a victim, sir.

Mr. Alexander becomes frenzied as the speech progresses.

MR. ALEXANDER

Then, by God, you have been sent here by

providence. Tortured in prison, then

thrown out to be tortured by the Police.

13 My heart goes out to you, poor, poor boy.

Oh, you are not the first to come here in

distress. The Police are fond of bringing

their victims to the outskirts of this

village. But it is providential that you,

who are also another kind of victim,

should come here. But you're cold and

shivering. Julian, 14 draw a bath for this

young man.

JULIAN

Certainly, Frank.

He carries Alex off.

ALEX

Thank you very much, sir. 15 God bless you,

sir.

Alexander bites his hand.

INT. "HOME" – BATHROOM

Alex soaks, eyes closed, in a hot tub.16

After a while he begins softly singing to himself: "Singin' in the

Rain".  INT. "HOME" – LIVING ROOM – DAY

Mr. Alexander is hunched over the phone, talking in hoarse

whipsers. The door to the bathroom is right behind him. While he

speaks Mr. Alexander throws nervous glances over his shoulder.

MR. ALEXANDER

I tell you, sir, they have turned this

young man into something other than a

human being. He has no power of choice any

more. He's committed to socially

acceptable acts, a little machine capable

only of good... He can be the most potent

weapon imaginable to ensure that the

Government is not returned at the 17  next

election. The Government's great boast, as

you know sir, is the way they have dealt

with crime in the last few months.

Recruiting brutal young roughs into the

police, proposing debilitation and willsapping techniques of conditioning. Oh,

we've seen it all before in other

countries The thin end of the wedge.

Before we know where we are we shall have

the full apparatus of totalitarianism.

18 This young boy is a living witness to

these diabolical proposals. The people –

the common people – must know... must see!

There are rare traditions of liberty to

defend. The tradition of liberty means

all. The common people will let it go! Oh,

yes – they will sell liberty for a quieter

life. That is why they must be 19 led, sir,

driven... pushed!!! Thank you very much,

sir. He'll be here.

Trembling with excitement and madness, Mr. Alexander hangs up the

phone. His eyes, shiny with anticipation. Then, suddenly, he

becomes aware of Alex's voice coming from the other side of the

door.

INT. "HOME" – BATHROOM

20 Alex in bath, singing.

ALEX

I'm singing in the rain,

21Just singing in the rain...

MR. ALEXANDER

22 His face horribly distorted in a Homeric rage.

INT. "HOME" – NIGHT

Alex, alone, in complete silence. Eating a large plate of

spaghetti.23 The giant, Julian, appears, carrying Mr. Alexander in

his wheelchair. He deposits him at the table.

ALEX

Good evening, sir.

MR. ALEXANDER

(very weird)

Good evening.

ALEX

It was very kind of you to leave this out

for me, sir. There was no-one around when

I finished my bath, so I started. 24 I hope

that's alright, sir.

MR. ALEXANDER

(too loud – voice out

of control)

25 Of course. Food alright?26

ALEX

Great, sir. Great.

MR. ALEXANDER

Try the wine!

ALEX

Thank you very much, sir. Cheers

Suddenly the thought occurs to Alex that the wine may be drugged

27or poisoned.

ALEX

Won't you join me, sir?

MR. ALEXANDER

No, my health doesn't allow it.

ALEX

(to Julian)

And you, sir?

JULIAN

No thank you.

Alex, stalling for time, reaches for bottle and reads the label.

ALEX

28 1960, Chateau, Saint Estephe, Medoc, very

good brand, sir.

He doesn't get a penny's change for his remarks from Alexander and

Julian.

He holds the glass up to the light.

ALEX

29 Very good colour, sir. Smells mice,

too.Very good number, sir. Very good.

Here's to it. 30

He downs the glass.

ALEX

Very refreshing, sir, very refreshing.

MR. ALEXANDER

(very arch)

I'm so pleased you appreciate good wine.

Have another glass! 31

ALEX

Thank you, sir.

MR. ALEXANDER

My wife...

Alex freezes.

MR. ALEXANDER

... used to do everything for me and leave

me to my writing.

ALEX

Your wife, sir? Has she gone away?

MR. ALEXANDER

No. 1st November She's dead!

ALEX

I'm sorry to hear about that, sir.

A Clockwork September

This is a supporting article for the work underway at The Hermetic Lessons blog. 

September finds a newly released Alex finding out that  his life on the outside will be very different than his old existence. We begin in the Linear North apartment where a lodger has moved into Alex's room leaving him homeless. Outside he finds those who he previously preyed upon now have the upper hand as he becomes the victim of the old ultra violence, initially ineffectually dished out by the drunkies, before his former droogs deliver a more professional beating in their new role as police officers.  

Follow Julli Kearns shot-by-shot analysis of this month's action here. She has some interesting ideas about anti-christ references. Find the scene changes in the summary and track the month's ACO action via the bolded sync numbers within the screenplay excerpt below it. 

September Summary

1st - 15th - Alex's apartment at 18 Linear North

16th - 25th - Riverside scene

26th - 30th - The Droog Reunion

September Day by Day sync

 PEE

Aye, that's Joe. He... ummmm, lives here

now. The lodger. That's what he is...

he... he rents your room.1

Alex confronts Joe.

ALEX

How do you do, Joe? Find the room

comfortable, do you? No complaints?

JOE

I've heard about you. I know what you've

done. 2 Breaking the hearts of your poor

grieving parents. So you're back? You're

back to make a life of misery for your

lovely parents, is that it? Well, over my

dead corpse you will, because you see,

they've let me be more like a son to them

than like a lodger.

Alex cocks his fist and starts to retch violently, almost at the

same moment Joe drops back on the couch next to Em.

EM

Joe! Joe! 3 Don't fight here boys!

Alex burps and retches.

JOE

Oh, please. Do put your hand over your

mouth, it's bloody revolting.

Alex violently ill.

PEE

Well, what's the matter lad, are you

feeling alright?

EM

Dad... It's the treatment.

More retching.

JOE

4 Well, it's disgusting. It puts you off

your food.

EM

Leave him be, Joe. It's the treatment.

PEE

D'you think we should do something?

EM

Would you like me to make you a nice cup

of tea, son? 5

ALEX

No thanks, Mum. It'll pass in a minute...

(after a pause)

... What have you done with all my own

personal things?

PEE

Well. That was all took away, son, by the

Police. New regulation about compensation

for the victim.6

ALEX

What about Basil? Where's my snake?

PEE

Oh well, he met with like an accident. 7 He

passed away.

Alex becomes a bit weepy.

ALEX

What's gonna happen to me then? I mean

that's my room he's in – there's no

denying that. 8 This is my home also. What

suggestions have you, my Pee and Em, to

make?

PEE

Well, all this needs thinking about, son.

I mean we can't very well just kick Joe

out... Not just 9 like that, can we? I mean

Joe is here doing a job. A contract it is,

two years. Well, we made like an

arrangement, didn't we Joe? You see, son,

Joe's paid next month's rent 10 already so,

well, whatever we do in the future, we

cant just say to Joe to get out, now can

we?

JOE

No, there's much more than that, though. I

mean I've got you two to think of. I mean

you're more like a mother and father to

me. Well, it wouldn't be fair now, would

it, for me to go off and leave you two to

the tender mercies of this young monster

who's been like no real son at all. 11 Look,

let him go off and find a room somewhere.

Let him learn the errors of his way, and

that a bad boy like he's been don't

deserve such a good mum and dad as he's

had.12

ALEX

Alright. I see how things are now. I've

suffered and I've suffered, and I've

suffered and everybody wants me to go on

suffering.

JOE

You've made others suffer. 13 It's only fair

that you should suffer proper. You know

I've been told everything you've done,

sitting here at night round the family

table, pretty shocking it was to listen

to. It made me real sick, a lot of it did.

Now look what you've gone and done to your

mother. 14

Em bursts into tears.

ALEX

So that's the way it is then, eh? That's

the way it is. Right, I'm leaving now, you

won't ever viddy me no more. I'll make my

own way. 15 Thank you very much. Let it lie

heavy on your consciences.

Alex exits.

PEE

(shouting after him)

Now don't take it like that son.

Em boohoohoos, Joe comforts her.

EXT. AMBANKMENT – DAY

16 Alex walks along the Thames embankment still holding his paper17

parcel.

18 Tramp enters. The same man beaten by Alex and his gang earlier in

the film.

TRAMP

Can you spare me some cutter, me brother?

Can you spare some cutter, me brother? 19

Alex, without looking at him, reaches in his pocket and gives him

some money.

TRAMP

Oh, thankyou, your honour.20

The Tramp takes a second look at Alex.

TRAMP

Jamey Mack! Be the hokey fly! Holy Mother

of God! All the Holy Angels and blessed

saints in Heaven preserve us.21

Alex breaks away but the Tramp toddles alongside him.

TRAMP

I never forget a face! I never forget any

face, be God!

ALEX

Leave me alone, brother. I've never seen

you before.

Tramp shouts to other Meths drinkers and Tramps.

TRAMP

This is the poisonous young swine that

near done me in. Him and his friends beat

me and kicked me and thumped me.

Alex breaks away again.

TRAMP

Stop him! Stop him!

A leg is stuck out and Alex goes down. The tramp swarm all over

him.

TRAMP

They laughed at me blood and me moans.

This murderous young pig is a prize

specimen of the cowardly brutal young. He

is in our midst and at our mercy. Give it

to him. That's it.

Old Tramps begin to beat at Alex.

ALEX (V.O.)

22 Then there was like a sea of dirty, smelly

old men trying to get at your humble

Narrator, with their feeble rookers and

horny old claws. It was Old Age having a

go at Youth and I daren't do a single

solitary thing, O my brothers, it being

better to be hit at like that, than want

to be sick and feel that horrible pain.

The Tramp crowd round Alex, shouting.

TRAMPS

Young hooligan... Vagabound... Kill him...

Villain... Toad... Bastard... Kick his

teeth in... Near killed poor old Jack, he

did.

Police move in and push off crowd.

FIRST POLICEMAN

23 Alright, stop it now.

SECOND POLICEMAN

Alright, stop it now. Alright! Come on.

Stop breaking the State peace. You naughty

boys. Alright, that's enough.

Alex looks up.

ALEX

Oh, no.

DIM

Well, well, well, 24 well, well, well, well,

if it isn't little Alex. Long time no

viddy, droog. How goes? Surprised are you?

ALEX

Impossible... I don't believe it.

GEORGIE

Evidence of the old glazzies. Nothing up

our sleeves. No magic, little Alex? A job

for two, who are now of job age. 25 The

police.

EXT. COUNTRY ROAD – DAY

Police Landrover drives up.

Alex is pulled out by Georgie and Dim and hustled up a deserted

lane.

DIM

Come on, Alex. Come for walkies.26

Hahahahaha.

ALEX

Come, come, my little droogies. I just

don't get this at all. The old days are

dead and gone. For what I did in the past

I've been punished.

DIM

Been punished, yeah?

ALEX

I've been cured. 27

DIM

Been cured, yeah, that was read out to us.

The Inspector read all that out to us. He

said it was a very good way.

ALEX

I just don't get this all. It was them

that went for me, brothers. You're not on

their side and can't be. You can't be Dim.

It was someone we fillied with back in the

old days... Trying to get his own malenky

bit of revenge after all this time. You

remember, Dim? 28

DIM

Long time, is right. I don't remember them

days too horrorshow. Don't call me Dim no

more, either. Officer, call me.

GEORGIE

Enough is remembered though, little Alex.

Dim and Georgie laugh.

29 They drag Alex to a low water through.

DIM

This is to make sure you stay cured.

Georgie hits Alex in the stomach with his blackjack. 30 Then, they

push his head under the water and methodically start to beat him

with their blackjacks.

After a full minute of this, they drag him out, halt-drowned,

DIM

(laughing)

Be viddying you some more, some time Alex.

EXT. "HOME" – NIGHT – HEAVY RAIN

A Clockwork August

A Clockwork August 

This supporting piece for the work undertaken by Blogos at The Hermetic Lessons blog covers the month of August in A Clockwork Orange mapped to 2022. I'd envisaged doing some shot-by-shot analysis along the way but once I found Julli Kearns wonderful site I junked the idea. In part because it's already been done and brilliantly so, but also because I don't want to spend too much time immersed in the mindset of this movie. I can appreciate the skills on show, but I'm finding myself increasingly repelled by the violence and the imagery, not something I'd have expected, but perhaps related to the times we find ourselves in. Anyway, for this next section here's Julli's thoughts.As before she's drawing on many different sources and making some astute connections. No point re-inventing the wheel... 

August begins with the last we see of Alex's therapy sessions but swiftly transitions to a demonstration of the Ludovicci process as Alex is tortured and tempted in front of a crowd of the watching great and the good. Once the Priest and the Politician have had their say, Alex is released and we end the month watching his return to the family apartment at 18A Linear North and a stunned Em and Pee. 

The major scene changes are in the summary, the bold numbers within the script mark the change in dates. 

August Summary

1st - Ludovicci Cinema

2nd - 25th - Auditorium (Temptation of Alex)

26th - 31st Alex's Family Apartment

August day-by-day breakdown

ALEX

You needn't take it any further, sir.

You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong and terribly

wrong. I've learned my lesson, sir. I see

now what I've never seen before I'm cured,

praise Bog!

DR. BRODSKY

You're not cured yet, my boy.

DR. BRODSKY

You must take your chance boy. The choice

has been all yours.

ALEX

But, Sir... Missus... I see that it's

wrong! It's wrong because 1 it's like

against like society. It's wrong because

everybody has the right to live and be

happy without being tolchocked and knifed.

DR. BRODSKY

No, no, boy. You really must leave it to

us, but be cheerful about it. In less than

a fortnight now, you'll be a free man. 2

INT. AUDITORIUM – DAY

VIP audience including Minister, Junior Minister, Prison Governor,

Priest, Dr. Branom, Dr. Brodsky.

Dressed in street clothes Alex enters led by a white-coated

Technician.

He is led onto stage and left standing there, 3 blinking into

lights.

The Minister rises and walks to the front of the auditorium.

MINISTER

Ladies and Gentlemen, at this point, we

introduce the subject himself. He is, as

you will perceive, fit and well nourished.4

He comes straight from as night's sleep

and a good breakfast, undrugged,

unhypnotized. Tomorrow, we send him with

confidence out into the world again, as

decent a lad as you would meet on a May

morning. What a change is here, Ladies and

Gentlemen, from the wretched hoodlum the

state committed to unprofitable punishment

some two years ago, unchanged 5 after two

years. Unchanged, do I say - not quite.

Prison taught him a false smile, the

rubbed hands of hypocrisy, the fawning,

greased, obsequious leer. Other vices

prison taught him as well as confirming

him in those he had long practiced before.

6 Our party promised to restore law and

order and to make the streets safe for the

ordinary peace loving citizen. This pledge

is now about to become a reality. Ladies

and Gentlemen, this is an historic moment.

The problem of criminal violence is soon

to be a thing of the past. 7 But enough of

words – actions speak louder than. Action

now. Observe all.

He returns to his seat and leans close to his Junior Minister.

JUNIOR MINISTER

Our necks are out a long way on this,

Minister.

MINISTER

I have complete faith in Brodsky. 8 If the

polls are right, we have nothing to lose.

Lights are dimmed. Enter Lardface, an elegantly dressed fag.

LARDFACE

Hello, heap of dirt. Pooh, you don't wash

much do you, judging by the horrible

smell. 9

ALEX

Why do you say that, brother? I had a

shower this morning.

LARDFACE

Oh, he had a shower this morning. You

trying to call me a liar?

ALEX

No, brother. What d'you want?

LARDFACE

What do I want?

ALEX

Sorry, brother. I didn't mean any offence.

LARDFACE

Oh. Oh, you're sorry are you, well you

must think I'm awfully stupid.

He slaps Alex in the face.

ALEX

Why did you do that, brither? I've never

done wrong to you.10

LARDFACE

You want to know why I did that, well you

see – I do that...

He stamps on Alex's foot.

LARDFACE

... and this...

He pulls Alex's nose.

LARDFACE

... and that...

He pulls Alex's ear, pushes him off balance and plants his foot on

his chest.

LARDFACE

... because I don't like you horrible

type, do I, and if you want to start

something... if you want to start... go

on... well, you just start. Please do.

Alex retching.

ALEX

I'm gonna be sick. 11

LARDFACE

You're gonna be sick are you?

ALEX

I wanna be sick.

LARDFACE

You wanna be sick?

ALEX

Let me get up.

LARDFACE

You wanna get up? Well, you've gotta you

see... 12 well I want you to lick it. Go

on... Lick it.

Alex, gagging and coughing, licks the sole of his shoe.

LARDFACE

... And again... Go on!!! Again! There's a

good boy.

ALEX (V.O.)

And, O my brothers, would you believe your

faithful friend and long suffering

narrator pushed out his red yahzik a mile

and a half to lick the grahzny, vonny

boots. The horrible 13 killing sickness had

wooshed up and turned the like joy of

battle into a feeling I was going to snuff

it.

Minister rises.

MINISTER

Enough! That will do very well. Thank you.

Lardface does leading-man-bows. A smattering of applause.

LARDFACE

Thank you very much,14 Ladies and

Gentlemen... Thank you.

Alex on floor – still retching.

15 A beautiful nude Girl enters.

16 Alex looks up slowly.17 

ALEX (V.O.)

She came towards me with the light like it

was the like light of heavenly grace, and

the first thing that flashed into my

gulliver was that I would like to have her

right down there on the floor with the old

in-out, real savage. 18 But quick as a shot

came the sickness, like a detective that

had been watching around the corner and

now followed to make his arrest. 19

Alex retching. Minister rises.

MINISTER

Thank you very much. Thank you my dear. 20

Girl bows and exits to loud applause.

MINISTER

Not feeling too bad now are you?

ALEX

(pullimg himself

together)

No, sir, I feel really great. 21

MINISTER

Good.

ALEX

Was I alright, sir? Did I do well, sir?

MINISTER

Fine. Absolutely fine. You see, Ladies and

Gentlemen our subject is, you see,

impelled towards good by paradoxically

being impelled toward evil. The intention

to act violently is accompanied by strong

feelings of physical distress. To counter

these, 22 the subject has to switch to a

diametrically opposed attitude. Any

questions?

Priest rises and moves to Alex.

PRIEST

Choice! The boy has no real choice, has

he? Self interest, fear of physical pain

drove him to that 23 grotesque act of self

abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to

be seen. He ceases also to be a creature

capable of moral choice.

MINISTER

Padre, these are subtleties. We are not

concerned with motive, with the higher

ethics; we are concerned only with cutting

down crime 24. And with relieving the ghastly

congestion in our prisons... He will be

your true Christian, ready to turn the

other cheek. Ready to be crucified rather

than crucify, sick to the very heart at

the thought even of killing a fly.

Reclamation, joy before the angels of God. 25

The point is that it works!

Applause.

EXT. FLATBLOCK

Alex walking carrying his prison parcel wrapped in brown paper.

INT. ALEX'S FLAT

26 Ma, Pa and Joe the Lodger reading newspapers. Headlines – all

Alex. 27

Alex enters quietly. Loud radio music from sitting room prevents

anyone from hearing him. He enters his won room which is the first

off the hall.

ALEX

Hi. Hi. Hi, there my Pee and Em.

All three look up startled.

EM

Alex.

ALEX

(to his mother)

Hullo love, how are you?

(kisses her)

Nice to see you, Dad.

PEE

Hullo lad. What a surprise, good to see

you.82 

ALEX

Keeping fit then?

PEE

(very ill at ease)

Fine, fine.

ALEX

Well, how are you then?

PEE

Oh fine, fine. Keeping out of trouble, you

know.

ALEX

Well – I'm back.

PEE

(with feigned

enthusiasm)

Aye. Glad to see you back, lad.

EM

Why didn't you let us know what was

happening, son? 29

ALEX

Sorry, Em, I wanted it to be like... a big

surprise for you and pee.

PEE

Well, it's a surprise all right, a bit

bewildering too.

EM

We've only just read about it in the

morning papers.

PEE

Aye. You should have let us know, lad, not

that we're not very pleased to see you

again. All cured too, eh?

ALEX

That's right, Dad they did a great job on

my gulliver, I'm completely reformed. 30

PEE

Aye.

ALEX

(looks in the kitchen)

Well, still the same old place then, eh?

PEE

Oh, aye, aye.

ALEX

(fake whisper)

Hey, Dad, there's a strange fella sitting

on the sofa 31 there munchy-wunching lomticks

of toast.

PEE

Aye, that's Joe. He... ummmm, lives here

now. The lodger. That's what he is...

he... he rents your room.1st September

A Clockwork July

 I must begin with two apologies, this update is late and the sync dates don't appear on the last entry for July. Don't know what happened, I did them, maybe they weren't saved properly. I wish I had a staff I could blame it on, maybe I should make one up. Anyway, I'll try to do better in July which is already upon us. Part five of Julli Kearns shot-by-shot analysis which covers the events of July can be found here. She has some interesting research on Serum 114 amongst her many astute observations. 

As to what's happening, it's a grim watch. We shift from Alex's violence to state violence. There's a clear suggestion that the films Alex is being shown are not fakes. Now the misery is being inflicted by men and women in white coats in the name of science. The summary has the scene changes, the bold numbers in the script below signal the changes day by day. If you've stumbled on this by accident (traveller, you are very lost indeed), then it all relates to this.

July Summary

1st July - Ludovico exterior 

2 -7 - Ludovico project entrance lobby

8- 11 - Alex's room at the Ludovico project

12 - 20 -Cinema (includes first two Ludovico films)

21 - 23 Alex's room

24 - 25 - Nazi war film with voice-over

26 - 31 - Cinema

July day by day

INT. LUDOVICO CENTRE RECEPTION DESK – DAY

ALEX (V.O.)

1st The next morning I was taken to the

Ludovico Medical Facility, outside the

town centre, and I felt a malenky bit sad

having to say goodbye to the old Staja, as

you always will when you leave a place

you've like gotten used to.

Chief Guard briskly leads the way for Alex and escort. They move

into reception hall where the Doctor stands.

CHIEF GUARD

(shouting like an RSM)

Right. Halt the prisoner. Good morning,

sir, I'm Chief Officer Barnes. I've got

2nd 655321 on a transfer from Parkmoor to the

Ludovico Centre, sir!

DOCTOR

Good morning, we've been expecting you.

I'm Dr. Alcott.

Chief Guard checks the name from his clipboard.

CHIEF GUARD

Yes, Dr. Alcott. Are you prepared to

accept the prisoner, sir?

DOCTOR

Yes, of course.

CHIEF GUARD

Well, 3 I wonder if you'd mind signing these

transfer documents, sir.

Doctor signs.

CHIEF GUARD

Thank you, sir. There, sir... there,4  and

there, sir... and there.5 Thank you, sir.

Prison escort move forward. Halt. Excuse

me, sir. Is that the officer that is to

take charge of the prisoner, sir?

6 Doctor nods. Officer steps forward.

CHIEF GUARD

If I might offer a word of advice, Doc.

You'll have to watch this one. A right

brutal bastard he has been, and will be

again. In spite all his sucking up to the

prison Chaplain and reading the Bible.

DOCTOR

Oh, I think we can manage things. Charlie,

7 will you show the young man to his room

now.

CHARLIE

Right, sir. Come this way, please.

Alex exits with Officer.

INT. ALEX'S ROOM – LUDOVICO CENTRE – DAY

Alex finishing breakfast tray in bed.

Room bright and cheery.

Dr. Branom, a tall woman in her fifties, enters with nurse

carrying a sterile tray.

DR. BRANOM

(very briskly)

Good morning, Alex, my name is Dr. Branom.

I'm Doctor Brodsky's assistant.

ALEX

Good Morning, Missus.8 Lovely day, isn't

it?

DR. BRANOM

Indeed it is. May I take this

She removes his tray.

DR. BRANOM

How're you feeling this morning?

ALEX

Fine... fine.

DR. BRANOM

Good. In a few minutes, you'll meeting Dr.

Brodsky and we'll begin your treatment.

You're a very lucky boy to have been

chosen.

ALEX

I realise all that, Missus, and I'm very

grateful to all concerned. 9

DR. BRANOM

We're going to friends now, sir.

ALEX

I hope so, Missus.

She inserts a needle into the medicine vial.

ALEX (CONT'D)

What's the hypo for then? Going to send me

to sleep?

DR. BRANOM

Oh no, nothing of the sort.

ALEX

Vitamins will it be then?

DR. BRANOM

Something like that. You are a little

undernourished, so after each meal were

going to give you a shot. Roll over on

your right side please, loosen your pajama

pants 10  and pull them half-way down.

He does, somewhat reluctantly. She gives him a shot in the bum.

ALEX

What exactly is the treatment here going

to be then?

DR. BRANOM

It's quite simple really. Were just going

to show you some films.

ALEX

You mean like going to the pictures?

DR. BRANOM

11 Something like that.

ALEX

Well, that's good. I like to viddy the old

films now and again.

INT. AUDIO VISUAL LUDOVICO CENTRE – DAY

Auditorium setting. Alex is bound in a examination chair in front

of a large video screen. A white-coated Technician is strapping

Alex's head to a medical device.

He then carefully attaches the eyelid locking to Alex's eyes.

ALEX (V.O.)

And viddy films I would. Where I was taken

to, brothers, was like no cine I'd been in

before. I was bound up in a straight#jacket and my guliver was strapped to a

headrest with like wires running away from

it. 12 Then they clamped like lidlocks on my

eyes so I could not shut them no matter

how hard I tried. It seemed a bit crazy to

me, but I let them get on with what they

wanted to get on with. If I was to be a

free young malchick in a fortnight's time,

I would put up with much in the meantime,

my brothers. 13

At the back of the auditorium are ten or fifteen solemn medical

Professionals in white coats watching the proceedings and

occasionally taking notes. A film begins showing on the screen.

The Technician drops eyedrops into Alex's eyes.

VIOLENCE FILM

Man being beaten by four toughs wearing white.

Punches, kicks, grunts, blood. 14

ALEX (V.O.)

So far the first film was a very good

professional piece of cine, looked like it

was done in Hollywood.

Screams, moans, kicks, punches.

ALEX (V.O.)

The sounds were real horroshow. You could

slooshy the screams and moans very

realistic and you could even get the heavy

breathing and panting of the tolchocking

malchicks at the same time. And then, what

do you know, soon our dear old friend, the

15 red, red vino on tap. The same in all

places like it's put out by the same big

firm, began to flow. It was beautiful.

It's funny how the colors of the real

world only seem really real when you viddy

them on a screen.

More kicks, punches, groans, thumps.

Girl being beaten, raped by six toughs.

Screams, music, laughing, grunts, heavy breathing.

ALEX (V.O.)

Now all the time I was watching this, I

was 16 beginning to get very aware of like

not feeling all that well, but I tried to

forget this, concentrating on the next

film, which jumped right away on a young

devotchka, who was being given the old in#out, in-out, first by one malchick, then

another, 17 then another. This seemed real,

very real, though if you thought about it

properly you couldn't imagine lewdies

actually agreeing to having all this done

to them in a film, and if these films were

made by the good, or the State, you

couldn't imagine them being allowed to

take these films, without like interfering

with what was going on.

Girl being raped.

ALEX (V.O.)

When it came to the sixth or seventh

malchick, leering and smecking and then

going into it, I began to feel really

sick. But I could not shut my glazzies and

even if I tried to move 18 my glazballs about

I still not get out of the line of fire of

this picture.

Alex squirming and retching.

Dr. Brodsky clears his throat and quietly addresses his collegues

seated in the back of the room.

DR. BRODSKY

Very soon now 19 the drug will cause the

subject to experience a death-like

paralysis together with deep feelings of

terror and helplessness. One of our

earlier test subjects described it as

being like death, a sense of stifling and

drowning, and it is during this period we

have found the subject will make his most

20 rewarding associations between his

catastrophic experience and environment

and the violence he sees.

Alex retching violently and struggling against his strait jacket.

ALEX

Let me be sick... I want to get up. Get me

something to be sick in... Stop the

film... Please stop it... I can't stand it

any more. Stop it please... please.

INT. ALEX'S ROOM – LUDOVICO – DAY

DR. BRANOM

Well, that was a very promising start. By

my calculations, you should be starting to

feel alright again. Yes? Dr. Brodsky's

pleased with you. Now tomorrow there'll be

two sessions, of course, morning and

afternoon.

ALEX

You mean, I have to viddy two sessions in

one day?

DR. BRANOM

21 I imagine you'll be feeling a little bit

limp by the end of the day. But we have to

be hard on you. You have to be cured.

ALEX

But it was horrible.

DR. BRANOM

Well, of course, it was horrible. Violence

is a very horrible thing. That's what

you're learning now. Your body is learning

it.

ALEX

I just don't understand about feeling sick

the way I did. I never used to feel sick

before. I used to feel like the very

opposite.22 I mean, doing it or watching it,

I used to feel real horrorshow. I just

don't understand why, how or what.

DR. BRANOM

You felt ill this afternoon because you're

getting better. You see, when we're

healthy we respond to the presence of the

hateful with fear and nausea. You're

becoming healthy that's all. By this time

tomorrow you'll be healthier still. 23

INT. AUDIO VISUAL LUDOVICO CENTRE – DAY

Alex retching and screaming – restrained again by a straight#jacket. 

24 (Nazi war film playing) ALEX (V.O.)

25 It was the next day, brothers, and I had

truly done my best, morning and afternoon,

to play it their way and sit like a

horrorshow co-operative malchick in the

chair of torture, while they flashed nasty

bits of ultra-violence on the screen.; 26

though not on the soundtrack, my brothers.

The only sound being music. Then I noticed

in all my pain and sickness what music it

was that like cracked and boomed. It was

Ludwig van – 9th symphony, 4th movement. 27

ALEX

Stop it... stop it, please!!! I beg of

you!!! It's a sin!!! It's a sin!!! It's a

sin, please!!!

Brodsky leans forward and turns down the sound.

DR. BRODSKY

28 What's all this about sin?

ALEX

That!... Using Ludwig van like that! He

did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just

wrote music.

DR. BRANOM

Are you referring to the background score?

ALEX

Yes!!!

DR. BRANOM

You've heard Beethoven before?

ALEX

Yes!!!

DR. BRODSKY

29 You're keen on music?

ALEX

Yes!!!

DR. BRANOM

(quietly)

What do you think about that, Dr. Brodsky?

DR. BRODSKY

(softly)

It can't be helped. Here's your punishment

element perhaps. The Governor ought to be

pleased... I'm sorry, Alex, this is for

your own good, 30 you'll have to bear with us

for a while.

ALEX

You needn't take it any further, sir.

You've proved to me 31 that all this ultra#violence and killing is wrong and terribly

wrong. I've learned my lesson, sir. I see

now what I've never seen before I'm cured,

praise Bog!

DR. BRODSKY

You're not cured yet, my boy.