A Clockwork Orange

Although not exactly what I envisioned, A Clockwork Orange displayed some of the psychological ideas we saw in class, including behavioral psychology. Alex, the protagonist, who rapes and kills for fun at the age of 16, is thrown into a brainwashing therapy which forces him to be sick while watching movie after movie of sexual assault and violence, even to the tracks of his beloved...

Ludvig van Beethoven. Similarly to the promises of John B. Watson in 1913 that investors could be forced into new habits through associations of certain objects with certain end results, the government in A Clockwork Orange try to force Alex's brain to associate rape and violence with his artificially induced sickness, promising a new era of peace and non-violence (narrated all in a first for movies!).