Throughout the first half of the movie Alex’s recklessness are depicted as trivial consequences to primal urges.  For instance if we observe the scene which Alex is performing a threesome with two women.  The scene is in fast-forward, there are graphic representations of sex, but the scene itself is more of a debriefing of Alex having what appears to be an inconsequential sexual encounter.  And although this half of the movie has plenty of violent scenes, they are not visually grotesque.  What makes them unpleasant is the manner the audience experiences his gratuitous impulses first hand; it is psychologically disturbing.  The violent scenes are followed by scenes of everyday deeds.  This sequence paints these impulses as circumstantial occurrences in Alex’s daily agenda.   The sequence is consistent throughout the movie.  The film also deploys camera angles that capture the sense of gratification. It paints violence with a vividness that captures the savage nature of the assaulter’s acts.   The violent acts are not graphic in that the visuals make the audience squeamish; but rather the audience experiences the intensity of the act through the assaulter. In the final violent scene, where Alex assaults the Yoga instructor, the act is portrayed quite vividly as a disoriented fight.  The struggle between Alex and the Yoga instructor is portrayed as a first person experience with the use of wide camera angles.

The remainder of the movie revolves mostly around the intervention of Alex; parental, social and professional opinions of him.   Alex is a specimen.  But, what is morally conflicting is the audience cannot objectively examine Alex after having experienced his world in first person.  So, we are introduced to the brutality of Alex’s world.  We are disgusted.  We then become involved with the character, and fully understand the world he lives in.  We then revert back to observing his reality, but having the first person experience, as introduced by the macro shots, we become desensitized to the brutality.   Strangely enough, the audience is forced to feel empathetic.