Male Gaze in A Clockwork Orange and Spectatorship

The 'Male Gaze' is presented throughout A Clockwork Orange as we take on the view point of Alex as he is our navigator of this world. Therefore the view that women are objects for pleasure that
Alex holds transcends onto the spectator.

The home invasion scene starts off with a shot of a man and it slowly tracks across to his wife. The husband is writing, being creative which is active and the woman is reading a book which is passive, this is interrupted when the door bell rings. The husband is sitting in a chair with the ability to move around freely whereas the female is sitting in a pod-like chair which she only gets released from when the husband expects her to answer the door.

When the woman gets up to answer the door the audience are shown that she is wearing a figure hugging outfit and she is visually distinctive in the white room as she is wearing blood orange. This almost red-ish colour connotes lust or danger so once again the spectator keeps alignment with Alex. The front door is placed in a corridor or mirrors, this allows the audience to gaze at her from all angles and as Alex cannot see her, it means this is purely for the spectators pleasure.

We are denied a female perspective and so denied the opportunity to connect with her so by extent we cannot disconnect our alignment with is Alex. In the final shot we are encourage to view her as an erotic object simply because we are drawn to looking at her chest instead of looking at the anguish on her face as that would give us reason to disconnect with Alex and loose alignment if the shot were to be of just the woman's face.

During the film the spectators partaking in Alex's