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A Clockwork OrangeWe are first introduced to Alex (Malcolm McDowell) in the company of his posse, fishily sipping drugged milk in a freakish bar with anatomically indiscrete manikins serving as tittie-taps and tables. The ensuing outlooks flash from Alex and his three droogs savagely beating an old man to a violent rape scene to a semi-chaotic gang-brawl. The story is of Alex and his love of the old ultra-violence, his act of murder, his betrayal and imprisonment, and his resume (twice). Adapted from Anthony Burgess 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange is in part a response to psychological behaviorism and the age of classical conditioning. While in prison, Alex is selected for a special intercession that will cure him of his impulses to rape and brutalize. The treatment is in fact a simple conditioning processAlexs eyes are propped open and his body restrained so that he must watch a series of graphic images while experiencing an injectant induced illness. The illness becomes his con ditioned response to brutality, rape, and, accidentally, his much beloved van Beethovens 9th symphony....