A clockwork orange

During ‘Home Invasion’ how is spectator implicit in the attack?

The spectator is implicit in the attack by being denied a point of view of the women during the attack and being placed far away from her. We also align with the group during this. We are also placed far away from Alex as he is the one committing the violence and also has a mask on so we don’t see his face during the attack, if we did I think that the spectator would dislike Ale and stop aligning with him.

The spectator is implicit by using the male gaze by making us take pleasure in the images of the women.  The woman is denied a view in this scene and is passive. The older man with the older woman is seen as a male’s ideal relationship, and we don’t walk out or stop watching this because we see the images of the women from the droogs ideology.

During the treatment scene how is the spectator punished?

The spectator is punished by aligning with Alex is the Ludivico treatment. As Alex watches the movies at first he doesn’t feel any effect, but as the treatment goes on he begins to nauseate, and more shots are of the shots are more of ale rather than the screen as it was at first, making is challenging to watch Alex because we are aligned with him and feel sorry because of his lack of freedom.

The demonstration scene turns the punishment again and makes us feel sympathy and the choking makes it uncomfortable to watch a he is shot in close up. As the naked women is standing in front of Alex she is shot in a low angle shot from Alex’s point of view, we almost want Alex to touch her through the alignment with him but as he tries he begins to choke, and this then makes us feel sympathy because he has lost his freedom.

During the finale, how are both Alex and the spectator rewarded?

In the end scene we feel good that Alex is raping the women because he has his freedom, the scene that makes us feel good for Alex is the Ludivico treatment, we feel uncomfortable watching him suffer to the treatment and when we see the last shot we feel relieved almost like he is re-cured.

The spectator should feel terrible because Alex is committing all ultraviolent acts but we are denied POV from the victims and we are denied alignment with Alex during the acts by using camera and masks to distance Alex’s face so we feel good when there is a new equilibrium.