singing in the rain

Wow, what a difference from the elated happy-go-lucky 1950 version of Singing in the Rain to the disturbingly violent A Clockwork Orange 1971 edition. Clearly something drastic happened in these 21 years and I think I figured out what it was: the 60's. The stereotype of the 50's was the perfect nuclear family with two kids, a dog, and a white picket fence. Then the 60's happened, which it needed to. Could you imagine living in the 50's? It seemed so oppresed. So the 60's happened with all of the protests and rights movements and drugs. It seems much of the population couldn't handle the cookie-cutter expectations of the 50's any longer. So by the time 1971 roles around the common public has got to be familiar with all of the changes going on in the world around them, whether they agree with them or not. This makes it possible to take what was such a cheerful song and twist it into a scene of violation, completely taking away the naivity of the 50's and throwing it into a modern, all be it ugly, world.