User blog comment:Looperreallyreallysucks/Pure Evil Proposal: Alex (A Clockwork Orange)/@comment-4971922-20190628131628

A question for those who upvoted Alex: have you actually seen the movie? I know this is just a subjective opinion mostly, but having seen Clockwork Orange multiple times, I can say with enough confidence that he is not meant to be a PE type of character. He's depicted more as a product of a dystopian society rather than a person who actively pursues evil because of his own choice. Yes, he ultimately has moral agency enough to decide for himself, but I see the issue here being very similar to that of 90's ghetto films where the neighborhood the main characters live in is so oppressive and violent that it actively creates characters who are overly violent and sociopathic. And the way Alex is "cured" isn't really that different from what Alex used to be before being reduced into a pathetic, sobbing worm who cannot even protect himself from his victims who actively torture him as means of getting back at him. It seems that some people voted him up just because he rapes, murders and abuses without thinking of the context or the setting as a whole.