Alex Delarge In The Bible

Alex DeLarge and his gang run wild in the streets of London, raping people, killing people, and causing distress wherever they go. This trend continues until one night the leader of the pact, Alex, is caught by the police after killing a woman. He would have been able to get away, but due to the fact that he previously mistreated the rest of the members in his gang they hit him and left him there to be found by the police. He was then sentenced to fourteen years in prison for murder.
After two years in prison he begins to try and gain favor, he helps the prison minister with leading worship. In his free time, Alex displays himself reading The Bible, when in reality he is envisioning himself still doing his dreadful deeds, just in Bible times. Alex gets word of a possible way out of prison, the Ludovico Technique. He questions the minister about this and the minister automatically thinks that it is not a good idea for him. So, he takes matters into his own hands. When a man comes to the prison to choose a test subject Alex speaks out in hopes for that to be enough for him to get his freedom. It is, Alex is one step closer to getting

out, but little does he know there is a price to pay.
When he arrives he is given an injections before he can start the treatment and then taken to a movie theater to watch two films; the first a beating and the second a rape.

During these films he is confined to a chair with his eye lids clamped open so he cannot take them off the movie. He begin to feel sick, and then like he is going to throw up and the doctors reassure him that this is a positive thing and it means he is getting better. Twelve more treatments take place, and then Alex is ready to be tested to see if he is "healed". His test displays him on a stage being attacked and forcefully licking the bottom of the mans shoe before he is released. Following the beating, a near naked woman is brought onto stage with him and when he is tempted to touch her, he immediately feels nauseous and collapses to the

floor.
The doctor considers this healed and Alex is released to go home only to find that his parents have basically replaced him. Unable to live there he leaves, gets beaten up by an old man and his friends who him and his gang had previously beaten. To make matters worse, he helplessly wonders into a home which he and his gang had left a man in a wheelchair and killed his wife, luckily the man does not recognize him right away. He later does when Alex sings the same song he was singing the night his gang ransacked the house. Mr. Alexander drugs Alex and with the help of others moves him into an abandoned house to be used to make the government look bad. When he wakes up he is surrounded by Beethoven's 9th symphony which now makes him consider suicide.
He later wakes up in the hospital and a doctor does test on him to see if his conditioning is still in affect, the results are negative. He now becomes almost famous because he is cured; from the nausea and suicide thoughts at least. The movie ends with him envisioning another sexual fantasy.
The government has pared up with doctors trying to condition prisoners with operant conditioning to make them unable to commit their crime again. We know this is operant conditions and not classical conditioning because Alex did not feel sick or suicidal all the time, it was only when he was exposed to violence, sexual acts, or Beethoven. They force Alex to watch these videos over and over as a part of his conditioning and the serum they give him makes him feel sick when he views the crimes he has committed.
I do not think that the program was successful at all, at the end of the movie Alex is already back to his old ways. In addition to that, their treatment is not a way to live so I would not consider it a cure but rather a torture device. I think their could be another way to cure Alex of his problem, but I do not think the answer is making feel near death. If the stimulus was not as harsh his operant conditioning may not be as drastic either. But, if this were the case I do not think it would work either because the doctors took his treatments and stimuli to the extreme and he still fell into his old habits.
In my opinion, I did not like the movie at all, from what it was about, to how the lesson was portrayed. By this I mean Alex and his gang is just an awful thing to imagine let alone made seem real in a movie. I also did not like the unethical treatment that was given to Alex. Just like some death penalties his treatment was a form of torture and no one person should have the authority to inflict those methods on to another human being. If I could change the movie, first, the beginning leading up to Alex's arrest would not be as graphic and second his treatment would be different. I can not think of a way to "fix" the problems that Alex has so he might not have any other option then to be in a jail or some sort of hospital.
I do think that the movie portrayed Alex's inability to change very well in the movie. I liked how at the conditioning did not work at the end; not that I agree with what he was doing but I just liked how it showed that he went back to his old ways. With an open ending it lets us as viewers envision how Alex's life will end up. Will he be forever the way he was before he went to prison? Will he someday realize that what he is doing is really wrong and degrading?
In my opinion, I think Alex will continue in his ways of raping and defiling women until he comes across one that impacts him in a different way. I hope for Alex that this girl changes his life and his way of living. Maybe then he will finally change for the better.