Sherieville A.

Garcia
MEXE 1303
Ethics – Reflection Paper

In the movie, there is a guy named Dim who is known as violent and he’s one of the
gang members, later on he became a cop. He did bad things; he became evil but he did
change and that change made him realize many things. In this movie, you’ll realize that
being in a group will surely make you influenced. Mostly, they do things based on
majority decision. Alex, who is a cruel leader of the gang has a passion for classical
music, but then his gang was engage in drugs with narcotics. They are brutal when it
comes to defenseless people. He killed a woman, which made him go to prison for 14
years. Inside the prison, he beat a new prisoner who dies.
He is chosen to undergo an experimental program which is the Ludovico’s Technique. It
is a brutal form of aversion therapy which includes Alex watching films which are about
violence and sexual abuse. They gave him some drugs and made him listen to
Beethoven. After the treatment, he eventually transformed into a good person. He feels
sick when he tries to do wrong things, that’s why he just did good things. Undergoing
the treatment made him become physically sick, he also disliked classical music. With
this, the other prisons question the ethics of removing one’s free will. When Alex is
released, his behavior left him harmless and he can’t even defend his own self. Many
things happen, Alex jumped out off a window, miracle or not, he survived. The doctors
didn’t continue his therapy which made him go back to his old behavior. He then met his
old friend; he rethinks his part behavior and it somehow made him changed.
The movie is about violence and it has foul languages. It left an important question, “It is
alright to force a bad person to become good?” and “Will it be a violation of one’s free
will?” We all have our freedom; we have the right to demand when someone is taking it
away from us. Alex has his freedom and that freedom made him do bad things, it makes
him human after all. He isn’t that good because he chose to be a bad person and that
choice is not vital to being a complete human being.
The government tries the treatment to pyscho-criminals which will transform them into
non-prone violence people. Yes, it is a good treatment, but then, who are they to decide
whether to let a person to be treated? It kinda amazes me that they actually have that
kind of treatment, but it made me furious because doing that to a certain people without
them agreeing to the treatment is a no-no for me. The government forces the treatment,
treating prisoners as a robot and they cannot act freely by their own will. It is not a
treatment and it will never be.