I remember reading Clockwerk Orange for the first time ( back then as an angry teenager),I was so fascinated in reading something so taboo, so raw.so evil, and I was infatuated with the main character's genius mind . Then I watched the movie. It had certainly have an impact on me.

Now that I am an old fart,..I regard it as an extremely violent movie. almost dangerous, and I would NEVER in a million years want my teenage son to watch it. The rape scene is degrading , and from a point of view as a mother, I get nauseated.
Clockwerk Orange is certainly a Cult Movie though. (where anything is allowed.no ethic rules)

for me not a fovourite movie anymore.

Clockwork Orange: one of only two X-rated pictures to get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Can you name the other??? (Hint: Clockwork did not win. The other nominee did.)

By today's standards, the actual violence depicted in Clockwork is fairly tame. It certainly would get an R (rather than an NC-17) rating.

My take is that emotional violence is usually more repellent to audiences than physical violence, though they often go hand-in-hand.

I have a difficult time watching "Boys Don't Cry," even though I consider it one of the finest films of the last decade, because of certain scenes that involve little actual violence, but a great deal of brutality.

I agree with you totally on Boys Don't Cry (and a great perspective on it). I think I mentioned elsewhere that I so intensely hated Peter Sarsgaard's character in that film that when I saw him in a movie afterward ("Shattered Glass," luck would have it) it made my experience watching that film so different because I disliked him so much. It also made that film better because his character is a little unlikable at the beginning, but becomes the big hero of the picture in a sense.

I'll refrain from answering your trivia to let others have the shot.