A psychologically and visually symbolic movie.

Rating: 8/10 (12 December 2005)

This movie is considered a classic, directed by well-known and inspired Stanley Kubrick, and also based on the novel written by Anthony Burgess. The main character, Alex, has a very anti-social personality and has demeanors showing his 'ultra-violent' lifestyle which he finds irresistible. Alex's testosterone levels seem to be at a very high level, resulting in intensifying his sex hormones as well as his levels of aggression.
Research has shown that there is a correlation between testosterone levels and aggression. Alex's high sex drive and his powerful desire of being aggressive could be a result of high testosterone and ultimately being a factor to his anti-social personality. In the movie, his accentuated private parts are a way of flaunting his sexuality. Making his sexuality so bold and pronounced is another aspect of what I think is from high testosterone and his obsession with sex and sexuality of both himself and of women he victimizes.
Alex's aggressiveness is demonstrated while performing sexual (as well as nonsexual) acts. His violent acts of raping, fighting, and killing greatly add on to his anti-social behaviors. In the Fifth Edition of Perspectives on Personality, it discusses the qualities of human behavior being linked to testosterone, including violent behaviors.
Although Alex may not show pleasant and 'good' choices, he still has the free will inside himself to choose between 'good' or 'bad'. As humans we may have been taught 'good' from 'bad' in decision making, but nobody told us that we have to choose good in every decision we make. Alex chooses what he wishes because he has free will. Once free-will to choose good or bad is taken away and no longer able to choose your choices, there is no option, no freedom within society. Alex's obsession with being violent, aggressive, and sexual is rebounded with internal pain and suffering until those obsessions have departed from his cognitions.
Society gives us choices, having us choose from one or the other, or many others. Once society takes this away, our freedom, choice and accountability are no longer available. Would this make us all the same, walking around and doing things just like everybody else? Having no say in decisions or opinions? Looking human on the outside, but on the inside becoming automatic, contrived and fixed? Turning us into clockwork oranges?