A movie that I like
It’s really hard to decide what my favorite movie is so I just will talk you about a film that I liked very much since I watched it. As teacher’s blog, this movie is based on a dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess. Its name is A clockwork orange. The movie is directed by the great director Stanley Kubrick. I saw this movie a few months ago and I really liked it so I hope to read the book too.

The movie talks about Alex, a teenager that lives in a dystopian future England. He is the leader of a band of teenagers that dedicate to cause pain, suffering and all the acts that generate violence to the other people. They enjoy it very much because they consume milk-plus that is milk mixed with drugs. They speak in strange English with words influenced by Russian, this is the Nadsat, a language created by the author to contextualize the readers into the dystopian future.

In some of their misdeeds, Alex is kept by the police and in spite of his age, he is jailed, because he just murdered a woman. Being in jail, Alex listens about a treatment that changes the prisoners to become them into good people. It’s based on the classical conditioning of the psychology, which justify their effects in negative reinforcement.

Finally the treatment works on Alex, but his life will change forever. I will not say anything else to not spoil the people that did not watch this movie.

The movie show us the evilness of humanity combined with the science advances, that could bring us a dystopian world as is proposed here.

There is an interesting polemic between the author of the book and the director, but you can read more about this on the internet.

Greetings J