A Clockwork Orange was based on a book written by Anthony Burgess in 1962. The movie follows a young sociopath, Alex DeLarge, a delinquent teenager who is convicted of murder and sent to prison. He is then chosen to participate in reform treatment at the Ludavico facilities. The doctors put Alex through a form of classical conditioning. 
As part of his treatment, a shot is administered to Alex right before he is put in a straight jacket and forced to watch disturbing violent scenes. This shot, used as an unconditioned stimulus, makes Alex feel unbearably sick. The sickness that he feels is an unconditioned response and in this case, violence is the neutral stimulus. Through this extensive experiment, Alex is conditioned to associate the sickness caused by the shot with violence. Alex is now unable to comit any violent act, and violence becomes the conditioned response.
After the doctors demonstrate that the experiment has been administered with a successful response, Alex is released from prison. However, the priest argues that Alex now ceases to be a creature as he has been stripped of any sort of choice.
In the end of the movie, when Alex is assaulted and tortured by one of his former victims, the minister of the interior apologizes for putting him through the treatment. Alex is bribed with a government job in which he will recieve steady pay for a little amount of work, if he does not blame the government to the press.
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