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    CAMBA, Meeko Angela R.

    2014-09379

    11 March 2016
    Comm 130 FWX

    A film that inspired quite a discussion on morals, violence and authority, Stanley
    Kubricks A Clockwork Orange challenged how audiences perceive their society, as well as the
    people of authority whom the people themselves gave the power to lead over them.
    Revolving around the character of Alex, a young English boy whose hobbies include
    beating up drunken old men and raping other peoples wives, the film established a dystopian
    society (in the future) wherein Alex represented the norm. Alex, having spent many years
    rebelling against the authoritarian leadershipand the kind of behavior it imposesfinally gets
    caught behind bars where he spends a few miserable years among people whove, like him,
    misbehaved. Desperate to get out of prison, he volunteers himself for a treatment pushed forth
    by scientists and governmentsupposedly to solve the problem of overcrowding in prisons
    that involves highly contested methods. During his treatment, Alex was conditioned to repel any
    kind of violence until he becomes completely incapable of hurting others. Thus, he was sent back
    to the outside world to rejoin a society containing people he previously mistreated. After a series
    of misfortunes of running into his past victims, as well as the treatments effects, he was driven
    to jump out the window and commit suicide. Surviving the fall, he was eventually put back to his
    original selfsignifying the total absence of change/failure of the conditioning, yet is seen once
    more being coopted by the system for its own ends. To put it in context to the films title, Alex,
    an organic and natural being such as an orange, is being forced to function as a machinehence,
    clockworkof the system.
    Looking at it not in a literal sense, I saw Alex as the man who is rejected by the
    system/society; the person who is of the lowest class because he behaves differently as to what
    those in authority have defined as proper. He is perceived as mis-educated and immoral
    (exaggeratedly so, considering the extent of his violent acts), as well as an unproductive member
    of society until he was cured by those self-serving scientists, along with the government, who
    made up the elite/ruling class. After having gone through the miserable years under the iron fist
    of the government, Alex was extremely fed up and had chosen to be brainwashed in order to be

    freed. He went through a process of conditioning where he was forced to accept the ideals and
    beliefs of those in control.
    Similarly in the real world, those who think and/or oppose the ideals of the present
    system (administration; ruling class) are being rounded up, unjustly put in prisonsometimes
    tortured and killeduntil they themselves, like Alex, become desperate enough to accept its
    ideologies. In the present day Philippines, the situation of the lumads is one perfect example of
    how people who think differently are being manipulated and forced to submit themselves to the
    ruling system. People of a different culture with a different set of beliefs living peacefully in the
    mountains (and rural areas) are being accused of harboring rebels just so they can be kicked
    out of their ancestral landa place so attached to their very souls as a peoplein essence to be
    used for business endeavors. Put in this statement, its evident how modernization and
    globalization are being used to justify the clearly unjust and inhumane treatment of people who
    should be given equal rights as any other Filipino. The system which we have long lived with,
    originally thought out to serve society and not the other way around, was taken over the powerful
    minority that tends to repress the others of the society.
    Media men and women who have lost their lives in the line of duty because they are
    bringing out stories that challenge those in power persist without justice. The Philippines to this
    day is one of the countries where impunity is an upward trend.
    Towards the end of the film, Alex returns to his old senses, yet is seen being pampered by
    a government official. During their brief meeting, the official is quick to tell him about a
    comfortable future waiting for him in the administrationa bribe of sortsafter he gets full
    recovery treatment in the hospital, courtesy of the state. During their meeting in the hospital,
    both were photographed by media personnel who will surely write about how Alex, a man once
    treated inhumanely by the state, is being offered compensation to start a new life. Alex is pitied
    and receives justice, and the government is reprimanded, yet remains in the same powerful
    positiona win-win situation. Whats lacking are the hundreds of others like Alex, those people
    who are still in prison, who are not lucky enough to receive this bright future because they
    are not in the limelight as he was. Those in the higher classes dont realize that many other
    Alexs exist, and that their struggles, although just as real and heavy, remain unresolved.

    As a media student, I think this scene is probably one of the most powerful ones in the
    entire movie because it shows how the mainstream media, though it poses to serve the people,
    actually contributes to the success and prevalence of the flaws in the system. It covers only
    (since they were only seen in that scene and nowhere else) the event where government helps
    man from his unfortunate situation, not the other issues leading up to itthe many people
    suffering in the prisons or those being abused by the states own law enforces, to give a few
    examples. It shows how government/ruling class is nice enough to help those below itself, and
    how the poor, misbehaving majority truly need them to become better members of society.
    It shows how the media is willing to cover that momentous event because of the number
    of headlines it would sell, and the effect it would have on its readers (or readership). In a sense,
    it imitates how positivist theories frame the role of media in society: it playing the powerful role
    of showing the rest of the people how the world is, shaping an opinion on what is taking place
    (government and man working together), without giving an insight of the underlying motivations
    and issues simultaneously taking place. Similarly to our situation in the country, be it a conscious
    choice or not, (at least mainstream) media loyalty has shifted to the status quo, becoming an
    instrument of the ruling class, a minority, and results to trying to silence the needs and demands
    of the suffering majority.
    Though admittedly, I would not voluntarily watch A Clockwork Orange, knowing the
    way it was put together. I know I still have notions that may be unjustifiable (as they stem from
    abstract ideas of right and wrong) that shielded me from fully engrossing myself to it, but I did
    strongly appreciate how it sought to break the continuous cycle of media reaffirming what should
    really be criticized. More than anything else, it is a vivid and daring representation of the truths
    we face in the real world but cannot actually see.
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