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Film Review
ByKimMin-jeong
EditorialConsultant
M
ost people have heard the theory
Thecharacterisdescribedastheleaderofhis
that asserts that human nature is
packbecauseheoverpowershisthreefellows
fundamentally evil, which was
with his capacity for violence. However,
espoused by a Chinese philosopher named
his way of treating his mates makes them
Xunzi.Hearguedthatallpeoplearebornwith
betray him when he commits the crime of
natural tendencies toward “waywardness;”
unintentionalmurder.
that is, a taste for profit and beauty and a
susceptibility to jealousy and hate, all of
which, if indulged in, will lead to disorder
andcriminality.
Afterbeingsentencedto14yearsinprison,
Alex pretends to be good while getting
Based on a book with the same title, “A
ClockworkOrange,”the?lmmadebyStanley
pleasure from reading violent scenes in the
Kubrickprovesthetheoryisnotabstract,but
Bible.Bytakingpartinanexperimentcalled
rather based in reality. Although the movie
the “Ludovico technique,” he is allowed to
was released in 1971, viewers may ?nd there
get out of prison and shorten his sentence.
isnogapbetweenthepastandpresent.
What he wants is just to be free from the
prison,thoughhedoesnotstopthinkingthat
reformationisnonsense.
Consequently, he becomes one of the
The main character, Alex, commits a wide
study’s participants. The technique is a form
assortment of crimes like violence, stealing,
of aversion therapy in which Alex receives
and sexual abuse. He longs for evil things
an injection that makes him feel sick while
while repeating the word, “ultra-violence.”
ultra violence.
watchinggraphicallyviolent?lms,eventually
With his mates, he steals a car, assaults
steals
conditioning him to suffer from crippling
people, and trespasses on private property.
bouts of nausea at the mere thought of
violence. In other
words, he cannot
even imagine the
sorts of things
he did in the
past without
b e c o m i n g
physicallyill.
As a result of
the therapy, he
cannot defend
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