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Stanley Kubricks 1971 film Clockwork Orange is a controversial depiction of futuristic Britain where moral and social semantics are a thing of the past. The movie, considered a film noir by critics, had Kubrick use disturbing visual imagery to express the theme and morals of the story. He particularly utilized this technique to express the connection between art and violence. One specific example of this interrelation was when Alex DeLarge, the main character, murdered the Cat Lady. The scene showed the room abounding in modern art that depict scenes of bondage and sexual intensity.

The Cat Women presents the only real force of resistance to Alex, and the scene comes out as a struggle between high cultures aestheticized violence and sex as an autonomous art form (Cohen). Since cat women in this film are extremely non-social introverts, they occupy an enlightened spot in a city predominated by lawlessness and violence. Alex actually understands the meaning of modern art as well as he understands violence. In the scene, he makes works of art weapons of violence.

The Cat Lady is felled using her own aesthetic collections.  For instance, the sculpture was transformed into a weapon to kill her and at the scene of the Cat Ladys death, a nearly subliminal orgy of modern-art  (Cohen) is apparent  as Kubrick split the pornographic artwork in the room into one and two-frame images with the paintings found in the room that depicted mutilated body parts and bondage.