Controversy to alert the masses?

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Director: Stanley Kubrik
Stanley Kubrik is one heck of a director who seem put his hand in many various genre of movies. Just like many of his films, Clockwork Orange received contrasting reviews when it came out, ranging from being a pornography to a stroke of genius. Pretty soon they were in the same level as being a classic.

The story is from Anthony Burgess' 1962 book of the same name.

Alex is a socio-path teenager of a futuristic London who finds sheer pleasure in hanging around a milk bar and going around beating people up just for the kick of it. He plays truant from school and bullies his gang members too.

One day as he and his friends were trying to hoodwink a lady to get into her house, the police is alerted. His gang members double crossed him and Alex ends up in jail alone. As his last victim dies, he is imprisoned for 14 years.

He goes along with his chores in prison as a helper to a pastor. With his help, he manages to be a volunteer in an experimental form of aversion therapy. He is injected with a special anti-sera and is exposed to violent movies. Alex develops intense aversion and reaction to any form of physical and sexual violence.

His remarkable transformation is the proud brainchild of the Ministry and is hailed as the way to reduce congestion in jails. The pastor however is not impressed. He exerts that any change should come from within, not induced by drugs. His argument is steam rolled by the fact that the end result is what that matters.

Alex's prison term is shortened and is released.
He returns home after two and a half years to discover that his room has been rented out to a lodger. The lodger is loved by his parents for he does all the things that Alex, as a son failed to perform. Feeling dejected, he leaves his parents' home.
As he was walking along the streets, he bumps into a drunkard whom he had bashed up before his incarceration. The drunk with his friends give him a sound beating. Lucky for Alex, he is rescued by 2 young policemen. Hold behold, the 2 bobbies turned out to be blokes who were whacked by Alex and his gang earlier!

Again he is taken deep into a jungle and beaten up and left out cold. You see, the effect of the treatment has left him completely defenceless against the cruelty of the real world!

Alex drags his sorry self to a house nearby. But what do you know? Alex had beaten up the occupants of the house too. The man of the house, a writer, has been left a paraplegic as a result of the assault and his wife had succumbed to pneumonia. Alex was confident that he would not be recognised as he was masked during the assault.

His cover, however, was uncovered when he started singing Gene Kelly's 'Singing in the Rain' in the bath - the same song that he was singing during the mayhem.

The writer called in his friends who interviewed Alex, pledging to help him. After discovering that his weakness was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was incorporated into his treatment regime, he lock him up and played the tune repeatedly to drive him to jump through a window.

He miraculously survives the fall with multiple injuries needing prolonged hospital stay. The papers have a field day lambasting the Government for failing in their bid to control man's activity. The government ratings plummets.

The Minister moves in to use Alex in their public relations exercise whilst promising work and perks for life. Alex happily agrees. Only then we realise that the fall had somehow reverted him back to his wayward ways as his dreams are filled with sex and violence again...

Clockwork Orange is described as a social satire ridiculing the society's endeavour to control what is acceptable in a society. It is fine if they just stick to that message. There is no need to have unnecessary irrelevant exposure of flesh and forbidden parts of both  gender. But then, it would not have drawn so much controversy and publicity and it would have just gone down in the annal of history of time as a just another forgettable futuristic film!