A ClockWork Orange

This great movie goes beyond the violence that the four youths performed. In my opinion, the author expressed three ideas that arise in society. The first and more transcendental is that violence is presented on the government, the police, and every system because it is the way that this people have the control on society. For instance, the movie shows government administrators and important people drinking milk in the same place where these four youths got together. It also shows that the three members of the gang became policemen even though they still had their perverse behavior. Moreover, it appears Hitler, one of the most evil leaders with the huge distortional mind ever seen on the history of humanity

The second idea is that society is not prepared to receive somebody rehabilitated due to the previous idea. Alex, the main character was rehabilitated in two years for a group of doctors and specialist proposed by the government; however, after the process Alex is repelled by his own family, attacked by his old friends, and stereotyped by the mass media. This episode reminds me the Chilean movie “The Jackal of Nahueltoro” it is also about a criminal that was rehabilitated, and then he was murdered to pay for his crimes. In both cases society was not ready to received and accept them.

The third idea is related with stereotypes; the mass media shows us what they want us to think. Therefore, the author used the characteristics of somebody who has values and a perfect life to express characteristics that supposedly are presented in somebody who has the opposite characteristics. For instance, the criminals drank milk, were intellectuals, loved Beethoven music, and had a stable economic situation. We expect most of the time that people with these characteristics would never act against values or ethic. However, all that asseverations belong to stereotypes; this situation reminds me the movie “Hannibal Lecter” he was a very cultured professor with the same characteristics, intellectual, glamorous, and sophisticated, but he used to kill his victims listening to classical music.

Finally, this movie is one of the best movies through history because expressed relevant and transcendental aspects of life. Moreover, it was useful for me to consider that we as teachers do not have to stereotype our students. In my opinion Alex was a victim of the system, and everybody behave in the same way after all; their family, their friends, the government, everybody discriminated him. In other words they were as violent as he was. Nowadays, these three ideas previously explained are represented due to globalization because we still have wars, famines, and poverty; all these terrible realities caused by violent people who are leading the world.