A classic film with a timeless theme

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2011)

A Clockwork Orange is a great movie with a lasting theme for all generations. Before I delve further, I want to point some items out. I am aware of the book, that this book was shortened by a chapter when it was published in the states, and that this movie is based off the shortened book. This is, however, about the movie, not the book.
The basic theme throughout is the subject of choice. Another movie with a similar theme is Spider-Man. This regular guy is given superpowers. He has a choice to make. Does he use these powers for good or evil?
But back to A Clockwork Orange. Alex, played by Malcolm McDowell, and his droogs go out every night causing "ultra-violent" activities of assault and rape, to name a few. They have the choice to stay in and not do any violence, yet they choose to go out and do this.
A quick side note about the lighting. This movie was one of the first movies to use all natural lighting. This made the scenes of the droogs at night seems darker, and yet when they were inside the lighting was cheerful and filled the room. The lighting was expertly done to show that life is life no matter what the choice.
A second quick side note about the camera angles. The camera angles were mostly of one main part of making it seem as if observing all these actions through a window. The viewer is not really able to help any of the victims except to just watch what has happened.
After Alex is taken by the police, he then has to serve a prison sentence for his choice. In prison, he hears of this new technique to "cure" him of his violent behavior. This technique is a conditioner to help remove his choice of violence by making him sick at the thought of violence. The conditioner also makes him sick whenever he hears Beethoven 9th Symphony.
After this conditioning, Alex is then released back into society. Once released, he comes face to face with the consequences of his choices. One of his choices that he did with his droogs was to gain entrance too and then beat the owners of a home. The man, Mr. Alexander played by Patrick Magee, was crippled and the woman, Mrs. Alexander played by Adrienne Corri, was raped and killed by this. The man then finds out about Alex and attempts to force him to commit suicide.
This results in the government receiving a huge backlash of how the conditioning was wrong. Alex, in the hospital, is "cured of his cure" while unconscious. The minister then pays him a visit and proves to the press that he is "cured of his cure". Alex then has his own choice back. He can choose to be good. Or he can choose to go back to the life he had.