This movie gives me a nice, warm vibratey feeling all through me guttiwuts.
It's good for me gulliver as well.
shareHoroshow, for sure.
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Actually, I had a good laugh at his treatment of the filthy old soomka at the health farm.
shareExcept its sooka, soomka means bag in Russian. (The word means "bitch"). And no offense intended, of course.
shareTheMan18 wrote:
"Except its sooka"
Nope.
Why not ccr?
shareAnd I'm a Russian so I should know.
shareBecause it's Anthony Burgess's nadsat language, loosely based on Russian, and it's "soomka" not "sooka." If this was a Russian language board I wouldn't have disagreed.
shareIt ALWAYS sounded like "sooka" to me, not soomka, soomka means bag.
shareThe nadsat dictionary is included in all modern editions of "A Clockwork Orange." It's soomka. You can verify it yourself. I hear the m clearly when Alex is harassing the naughty old cat lady.
shareActually, damn it ccr you're right, it IS "sooMka", which beans "bag" in Russian. I heard the "m" after recently rewatching it.
Also, I and a few others, could probably throw even some CONTROVERSIAL questions into the mix but hey, in case anyone forgets, in Great Britain even with it being already as it is, it was banned for almost 30 years by the director himself as Kubrick at the time was receiving death threats from audiences who hated it.
But hey, with me being multi-versed in movies too, this probably IS my favorite movie EVER.
And even IF it deals with such topics CONVENTIONALLY and doesn't say, include material of other variety, that may cause controversy, even if viewers maybe WRONG to think so or even OTHER disturbing stuff to it, if it works why complain?
To be fair, "bag" can be used as an insult as well, as in "Shut up, you old bag."
shareTHAT's why he DID say "soomka" to imply "you filthy old bag" however if he said "Sooka" WITHOUT the "m", like I first thought I heard, it would've been "you filthy old b*tch".
shareBut in Russian, which Nadsat has very strong elements of, we practically never use the word "bag" as an insult, hence why partially at least, the first time I heard it I thought it was "sooka" rather than "soomka".
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