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Anthony Burgess, who wrote the 1961 novella on which the movie is based, didn’t entirely trust his readers to decide on the conclusion. All of these are undermined by a brainwashing process in the film called the Ludovico Treatment. The Cure That Didn’t Stick in the Clockwork Orange BookĪ Clockwork Orange explores moral choice, individual responsibility, and free will. Or at least letting the beast do what it will, as long as it keeps the zookeepers entertained. By viewers’ choice, it is better to retain free will, even if it means uncaging the beast. It seems a no-brainer whether it is the perfect conclusion. It is one of the most memorable and powerful closing scenes in motion picture history. The film ends on a classically framed shot of Alex (in his mind) happily performing the old in-out in-out with a pleased partner surrounded by an appreciative audience of privileged-class voyeurs. This may be problematic as a working social application in real life, but it is the better cinematic choice. He is free to brutalize and pillage another day.

We left theaters relieved the teenaged thug who’d been beating and attacking his way through the future suburbs of London escaped government brainwashing, conformity, and supplication with his mind, and baser instincts, intact. “I was cured all right,” Alex DeLarge ( Malcolm McDowell) asserts at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 cautionary science fiction classic, A Clockwork Orange, and audiences cheered.

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