What’s most important to note about A Clockwork Orange is that it is distinct from the other films discuss because it does not try to physically manipulate the environments Alex interacts with.  It depicts Alex as a teenager living in Britain and deliberately uses believable and existing architectural environments as settings for his crude acts.   Kubrick is not trying to represent Alex’s fantastical reality.  On the contrary, he conveys the experience of a realistic setting, through the eyes of a psychopath.  This expresses a more thorough understanding of the human psyche. And further suggests that although psychopathic tendencies are brutal and reckless, but they are sometimes inherent and part of a natural human condition.  It forces the audience to experience the reality of a madman, in order to inflict empathy. Now, yes this was partially motivated as a reaction to behavioural psychological methods.   And though it may be a type of activism, and may be slightly off kilter in what it is suggesting, the fact of the matter is that the film still successfully manipulates the reality of the audience with the use of realistic sets.   

Our real world environments have a profound effect on our psyche.  In Kubrick’s movie this is depicted quite well.  Psychology has advanced and become a rather mainstream subject.  It has expanded into various other disciplines such as social studies, biology, politics etc.  Contemporary theory is mapping various neuro-patterns of our brain in order to gain scientific insight into the workings of the human mind.    Nowadays the human psyche is treated as a byproduct of brain functions; there is disconnect between the ethereal aspects that Freud initiated in the early 20th Century.   The environments we interact with have an effect on our behavior and personality, yet advancements are leaning towards a human existence where our psyche is scientifically adaptable.  This could suggest a world where the psychological impact of the built world is negligible.