A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) is often perceived as being sympathic toward Alex, the hoodlum narrator of the story. I think those perceptions are based on the fact that Alex IS the narrator, and thus his feelings about the mind altering drugs the doctors gave him are shed more light on than if a holier-than-thou narrator would have told the story.
It's also interesting how the media kept talking about "changing" his nature and how ashamed the gov't ought to be b/c of it; I mean, nature, pure and simple, changes on its own. And since when has mankind been "natural"? Is being superficial and choosing friends based on social status and lying to them or candy coating the truth and doing anything and everything that doesn't involve genuine human connection NATURAL? Are TVs and computers NATURAL? If so, then I guess kids shouldn't even HAVE parents - they should all be left to their own devices and decide for themslves what's right and wrong. And then be put in prison, 35 years, once out kill again and then be put back.
See, THAT is the moral delemma in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. People everywhere at the mercy of these heartless teenagers are unable to figure out a solution that everyone can agree on.
Of course, hopefully society won't come to that kind of desperation...
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