![]() ![]() The choice of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony by Gaspar Noé in Irréversible is both an echo of the omnipresent reference to Kubrick and the exact opposite in narrative terms. Where Alex from A Clockwork Orange vented his violence to exhilarating music, Alex from Elephant finds refuge in quiet compositions that nevertheless reveal the frustration, the unsaid words and the melancholy of the character, which slowly lead him to the massacre. Two love letters from Beethoven, the Moonlight Sonata and Für Elise, played like haunting refrains by Alex, a teen criminal in the making, inspired by the Columbine high school shooting in 1999. Underscoring the irrationality of the link between violence and culture, Kubrick said to a journalist from the Daily Express: " People have written about the failure of culture in the twentieth century: the enigma of Nazis who listened to Beethoven and sent millions off to the gas chambers ». It runs through the film and is used in several places, either in its original form - as Beethoven wrote it - or in an arrangement by the composer Wendy Carlos: March from A Clockwork Orange and Suicide Scherzo. ![]() Beethoven's ninth symphony mirrors the personality of the main character Alex. ![]()
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