10 Dystopian Sci-Fi Films Where The State Wins

Stanley Kubrick's masterful dystopian feature A Clockwork Orange was adapted by the director from Anthony Burgess's ground-breaking dystopian novel back in the early '70s. While the film's extreme content earned it a banning in various geographies across the world, its impact and prescience have stood the test of time, foreshadowing a violent, Russian-influenced future in which society is British divided into the haves, the have-nots and the criminal class.

Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is the latter, drinking knifey moloko cocktails, patrolling the streets with his merry band of droogs, and abusing his society in the worst possible ways: thievery, rape, murder - you name it. Nonetheless, Alex's crime spree is halted when the authorities get hold of him and the Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp) subjects him to the Ludovico technique, a process of extreme reconditioning that pairs drugs, violence and Beethoven in order to give the young miscreant a severe reaction to his prior vices

Although Alex manages to slip his conditioning via a fortuitous attempted suicide, and discovers to his delight that he can contemplate sex and violence once more without pain or fear, the state isn't finished with him yet. At the film's conclusion, he is set to enter the employ of the government, his violence used against the public to support the Minister's election campaign and extended authority, not to rebel against it.