A Clockwork Orange

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

I absolutely loved this movie. It was so bizarre and unusual. I was afraid of Alex because he was a psychopath. This movie has strong scenes with violence, sex, etc. But you can’t stop watching it. You want to know what happens with Alex.

It shows how classic conditioning works. Lie when Alex started the experiment, the unconditional stimulus was the drug and the unconditional response was the sickness he felt, the doctors applied the neutral stimulus that were the movies and the music at the same time, so after many hours of experimentation, Alex felt sick with any kind of violence and Beethoven 9th symphony. The neutral stimulus changed to be a conditioned stimulus and it created a conditioned response.

Alex also suffered from stimulus generalization, at the moment that he felt or saw any kind of violence he felt sick, because he associated the actions with the violence he saw on the videos.

Although he appeared to be cured, he wasn’t. At the end he experienced extinction, he stop to have a conditioned response to the conditioned stimulus.

Even though this movie is crazy, strange and violent, it has become one of my favorite movies, because all what Alex did, could happen in real life, and that is really scary.

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