Joy of irony

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2019)

It's a story of many things, maybe that's why some people cannot catch up with them all.
I just love that everything in the story has more than one side. Even Nadsat (the language the teens speak) is both dark and funny at the same time. Alex is like that too, he's sinister and wild and simultaneously charming and funny-looking. He's nasty but glee. He's senselessly violent but he loves to listen to Beethoven. He's terrifying but pathetic. It just breaks all the taboos.
But apart from all of that, the story itself is just something else. It's a perfect unique dystopia portrayed in such an unusual atmosphere. It raises a lot of ethical questions while doing that as well. Like good/evil or suppression/free will. It dazzles your mind with being so close to the reality.
At the end, after conditioning Alex, he shows impulses to hate, violence, lust and all the things that are called "evil". He becomes a so called decent person but without a soul. As he says himself at the end, he was cured all right. So what's the aim? It's a purely ironic redemption that the treatment was to return him to his previous "free" state. But not many people notice the fact that previous Alex was also a product of conditioning as well.
And above all, something that creeps people out more than Alex is that any current government is sick enough to try these cures. So, in Alex's own words: "The colors of the real world only become real when you viddy them in a film."