In the treatment scene we as a spectator are punished with Alex for committing these crimes because we have been part of them through the ways in which we have been forced to view them by Kubrick. At first we initially enjoy the images and are able to watch them as is Alex. However as the drug starts to take affect on Alex he begins to experience pain and terror at the images he is watching. As Alex begins to feel like this we are prevented from viewing the images and are forced to watch Alex in pain and near vomiting because this is our own punishment for taking part in the crimes and for our voyuerism.
The fact we are punished along with Alex reinforces the idea that we as the spectator were just as much a part of these crimes as Alex was. Although we were forced to see these crimes in a way in which we enjoyed it we are still being punished for continuing to watch the film and not switching it off or walking out of the cinema. Alex and us are denied pleasure of the images because we are forced to see Alex in pain and Alex is drugged and in tremendous pain when watching therefore removing the pleasure for both.
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