A Clockwork Orange; Home Invasion

During the 'home invasion' scene, how is the spectator implicit in the attack?

During the 'home invasion' scene includes a variety of different shot types that position the spectator as part of the attack, rather than merely viewing it. 

The scene is shown predominantly through wide shots that display the whole of the room and thus the whole of the attack. This directly positions the spectator as someone in the room with Alex, his Droogs and the victims, and therefore implicates the spectator in the actions of Alex and his Droogs.

The use of (male only) POV shots also ensures that the spectator has no choice but to watch the violence and rape unfold as if they were there, but the switching to and from wide shots suggests that rather that be 'forced' to watch, the spectator is in fact compliant and happy to watch a woman be raped in front of them. 

The scene also illustrates Laura Mulvey's theory of a 'male gaze', taken from her study 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. The nameless wife in the scene is introduced as completely passive, as her husband only needs to look at her to instruct her to see who is at the door. When she does, the corridor is lined with mirrors, meaning the spectator not only has no choice but to look at her, but they can view her from several angles at once in quite a voyeuristic manner.

The fact that the sexual assault she suffers is shown from her husband's POV suggests that he is the victim in the situation rather than her. Instead, she is not a victim but a tool used to punish and mentally attack the man. In more ways than one Alex and his Droogs use her for their gain.

The final shot of the woman is a close-up of her throwing her head back, and despite what we know is happening to her, it looks like she is in pleasure rather than in pain.

This illustrates how Kubrick never allows the spectator to see how it feels to be sexually assaulted, but rather how it feels to commit the assault.

Therefore, the spectator is implicit in the attack by essentially committing it themselves by viewing the attack in the manner they do.