A brief analysis from two different perspectives.

Rating: 9/10 (8 June 2019)

This is the only film I've ever watched back to back. After watching it the first time all I knew was that I loved it. I knew I loved the way the characters expressed themselves, the cinematography, the artful display of everything infront of the camera; it was as if Kubrick was painting a picture with every shot... But to go deeper than that, I had to rewatch it right away.
I kind of anticipated the ending but still wasn't ready for it. I knew it made sense, but I couldn't really understand it. It wasn't until I watched the film for the third time, a bit later on, that I managed to uncover a couple of the films' major truths.
I will now talk very shortly about those truths.
First of all, the film carries a very strong political satirical message: The same minister of the same government is using our protagonist, Alex, at two different times, in two drastically different and radically opposing and paradoxical ways. But still manages to strengthen his position as a politician and his government's position as a ruler of society in both cases. So I guess the film shows that politicians in a government, or the political system overall, are capable of manipulating events, circumstances and the people affected by such for their own political and personal gain. The care for the people only goes as far as to how useful they can be to "the cause".
The second, and more profound truth in my opinion, is an ethical one, which resonates deep within the moral quarries of the human mind. You see, Alex served his sentence, endured his punishment and was cured. Everything the society asked for, right? But still, his family was against him, everybody he had wronged wanted to punish him and even his old friends (or droogs), who already punished him by the way, by betraying him and turning him in to the police, felt the need to punish him even further. So my question is - what did he go to prison for? What was the point of society sending him to prison to be punished only to continue the punishment after he got out? And what's the point of being cured if everybody treats you as if you were not? As if you were the same person as you were before? You could say that society re-shaped the new Alex back into his old self by treating him the way they did; they brought that upon themselves. But when you think about it, Alex was still the same person after his treatment as he was before the treatment - he had the same impulses and desires as he did before, the only difference now was that he was physically unable to act on them. The treatment had trapped him and made him a slave to it; that became his decease; hence (when he at last could indulge in his desires again) "I was cured, all right".