A Clockwork Orange

Spoiler Alert

A Clockwork Orange is one of the most influential films of the American film-maker and director Stanley Kubrick.

Released in 1971 this film isn´t only known for its disturbing images, the Beethoven music, a dystopian future, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and nazi references but for its approach and view over human psychology.

This film takes place on a dystopian futuristic Britain where young Alex DeLarge and his “droogs” like to meet at the Korova milk-bar enjoying the sense sharpening Moloko Vellocet Milk.

Alex and his droogs like to get out to the streets on Midnight and draw upon the so called “Ultraviolence” reaching the point of beating old-hobo people and fighting against other Young gangs.

Alex is a huge fan of Beethoven’s music, specially the Ninth Symphony. Whilst listening to his music, Alex picture such heartwarming images in his mind.

But Alex’s lifestyle couldn’t persist forever; Alex is captured by the police and recluded at the prison. After a while, he volunteers to a brand new- inovating reformatory system “The Ludovico Technique”

The treatment consist basically of the projection of ultraviolence, attempting of rape and WW2 films starring with Hitler and his SS troops.

This doesn´t  seem to affect Alex at all, but he realizes the background music: The Ninth Symphony.

This traumatic experience would affect Alex for all his life, depriving him of comit any sex or violence act even when Alex its in real danger.

Young Alex mind would never be the same again. The lone fact of seeing or trying to comit any “violent” act or listening to any Beethoven song would cause him a devastating pain and nausea.

His freewill could be gone forever, his loved ones would never see him with the same eyes again.

His conscious and unconscious mind was altered, and his freedom (although his past violence and sexual crimes),  anyways  it was completely corrupted.

                 

                                          

A short analysis (not review) that may contain spoilers from the film
“A clockwork Orange”