Clockwork Orange

Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. It features disturbing, violent images, facilitating its social commentary on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain. 
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the main character, is a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls hisdroogs (from the Russian друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via controversial psychological conditioning. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.

Overall the background to this film is to give an overview of their idea of future Britain with ideas of gangs and mobs and to an extent they have been correct.
Many reports had been released by the press relating attacks to A Clockwork Orange. In 2005 a gang of youths where charged for manslaughter after the death of a bar manager in London. They were believed to have beat him to death and filmed it on a mobile phone, many know this as 'happy slapping' and this is shown throughout the film and has related this attack to the film.  
 In 2010, 2 girls on a drink fueled night out "attacked a gay man to death" because of his sexuality. Onlookers, again, said it was like a scene from the movie A Clockwork Orange.

Obviously the two attacks have given A Clockwork Orange bad press as though the film has influenced young people to go out and attack people in such a way. Because of the media portraying this film in a negative way it causes people who read and listen to the media to think of the film negatively and blame the film for these two deaths. However, when youngsters of the 70's where asked how A Clockwork Orange had affected them after seeing the film they all replied with the same answer, 'that is was nothing they hadn't seen before'. People like to find something else to blame rather than the people and media help it's audience do such.
 
Overall the film links back to Cohen's theory in the way that the headlines created moral panic for society to think that many teens in that age group were part of a gang and go out to beat passers by up, when in reality youngsters just what to get on and enjoy their time as youths and seeing such behaviour on a film would never be acceptble in a society like ours today.  Youths today are used to seeing fights and immoral behaviour, and the majority deem unacceptable, and A Clockwork Orange is just an other violent film that has tried to grasp the reality of the future, yet it is not all what it has been made out to be.