A Korova in Montreal?
Our partners and Montreal nightlife specialists, published a brand new review today for a little second floor bar on St-Laurent street, Korova. As the reviewer points out, Korova is also the name of the bar in “A Clockwork Orange”, a book by Anthony Burgess and immortalized graphically in a film by Stanley Kubrick, especially in its mad opening sequence.
Mentioning the name Korova and “A Clockwork Orange”, automatically brings to mind the crazy set of the Korova bar of the movie: the white colored female plastic statues, with milk coming out of their breasts. And you can’t help but feel weirded out by the fact that it is milk that they drink, not liquor or beer, but milk. This weird drinking arrangement is explained in the book by the fact that the boys are under-aged and there is actually drugs mixed with the milk. Still, the Korova in “A Clockwork Orange” makes for a perfect, health-obsessed, nature-loving, stylishly designed present-day bar.
The Korova in Montreal is not like the one in Kubrick’s movie, but it is still an interesting and original place.
Here is the opening sequence from Kubrick’s movie, set at the Korova:
My only problem with Kubrick’s brilliant vision of the bar is that it is skewed in only one direction, making it possibly sexist. It would have been interesting (and funny) to have some male-body shaped furniture to take a drink out off; a male counterpart to the genius contraption bellow:
And in a weird coincidence, these female-bodied furnitures in Kubrick’s Korova remind me of the female-legged synthesizers of Chromeo. I guess there is only that much original ideas out there.
