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A Clockwork Orange is one of the most controversial movies ever made. The movie is based around a thug named Alex, a teenager, who finds happiness in about any perverse action. Alex, who seems to find glory in rape, lust, and murder, tells the story from his point of view.
The movie examines the usual cliches of "individual freedom". It seems as if Alex suffers from an attempt to exercise his own vitality within a social structure too severe to support it. The film is not only a social satire but also a "fairy tale of retribution" and a "psychological myth",(Kagan) all constructed around the truth of human nature.

Each night Alex and his companions commit stylized but meaningless acts of violence including rape, robbery, and mugging. One such night they find themselves out at a house far off in the country. The overly modernistic house has a sign lit in the front that says "home". The four boys slither to the front door where they act as if one of them is hurt.

Alex is confronted with multiple situations from his past upon his release. He keeps a calm demeanor throughout the whole thing and denies all charges.


After some time he is tested to see if he will regress into his former self. They attempt to enter an older woman's house the same way they entered the previous night, the woman will not let them.


The next morning Alex is confronted by his probation officer because his officer thinks that he was involved in the previous night's wrongdoings. So Alex finds his way inside and once inside he struggles with the woman, who has already called the cops, and ends up clubbing her with an enormous phallic sculpture, killing her. The Milkbar is a place where spiked or laced drinks, called milk-plus, are served.


The basic paradox of the movie is free will, and the importance of a man's power to choose how he will act and what choices he wants to make; even if...