When the Rain clears.

The middle of the 1950's in America was a prosperous time for the recently depleted country. Charles Schulz introduced Peanuts, Disneyland opens in California changing the face of 'fun' and color soon began to flood television screens. The film Singing in the Rain, however still shown in black and white, was a toast to the happy side of life. The art of entertainment was designed to give American's the ability to forget about their hardships and live vicariously through these silver screen shows. 'Singing in the Rain', performed by Gene Kelly, has influenced many film's to come and is now highly regarded as a great musical masterpiece. Despite the happy-go-lucky feelings the song promotes, it would soon become a testament to the dark side of free will, controlled substances and new experimental forms of music.
Over the next twenty years America would be thrust back into war again and have to witness the assassination of one of their favorite presidents in JFK while the rise of the hippie alternative movement separates society into very distinct, divergent groups. Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange in 1971 demonstrates the antithesis to Gene Kelly's original version of "singing in the rain'. At first we saw a man so believably happy to be singing outside during a rain storm and now, twenty years later, we see the same song being sung during a rape scene. The character who sings this song appears to be boasting about the terrible change that has come from the depths of society. He shows us through song and rape that the world has an ever-present evil that is not going anywhere soon.
Personally it was a bit hard to watch the Clockwork Orange rendition of singing in the rain directly after watching Gene Kelly's original. To see smiles turn into sinister grins overdubbed with screams and cries. Try it yourself to see what emotional changes you feel.