In the first part of the film, Alex shows all the desires in his heart without reservation and concealment. He is fearless, dares to face his heart, dares to face his desires, dares to act according to the driving force of his heart, As a person, he could be called extreme truth, which only a truly free state of mind can do. With him, nothing matters except human nature. What morality, what law, these are indifferent things. And those who really belong to the human being, the innate is the most real, but the irony is that only Alex dares to face and bear, and when this most real person appears in our so-called "normal" world , but it brings fear, destruction, weird behavior to others...
and freedom, in the first part, Alex's freedom is not restricted in any way. When it comes to restrictions, what really restricts our freedom of behavior is our own consciousness, which includes our moral values, our rational thinking, etc., which do not exist in alex's world. He has nothing of his own to restrain his freedom. In other words, human nature is free and yearns for freedom, which is the truest attribute of human beings, but no one can be as free as Alex. This freedom is precious. He dared to break through everything.
Rather than saying that the director is exposing the evil of human nature, I think he is satirizing our world and society. The law of nature is the law of the weak, but our morals, laws... all these so-called "fair" laws will only make people more and more cowardly and hypocritical! People dare not face their true hearts, and they restrain their free thoughts. It is precisely because of this that human nature tends to the "evil" that we always fear and avoid, because curiosity and adventure are human nature. The basis for human progress.
The original author of the novel's interpretation of the story and characters is not the same as Kubrick's.
There is so much to say about this film.
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