Continuity mistake: When Alex is seeing the prison governor about being released, the governor's glasses are on a pile of papers on his desk. From various camera angles they are on some files, back on the papers or halfway between.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Plot summary
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates
Alex DeLarge (McDowell), a violent juvenile in the near future, is caught after a number of brutal rapes and murders. While imprisoned, he submits to a controversial experiment to make criminals ill at the mildest suggestion of violence or conflict or anything sexual. Now Alex's victims want to welcome him back into society with the same enthusiasm Alex had always exhibited when performing his crimes.
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Trivia: The book that F. Alexander is writing when the droogs burst in and attack his wife is "A Clockwork Orange."
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Chosen answer: The droogs didn't like how Alex was leading them, so he attacked them. It's never explained whether the plan was to set him up all along, but given that Din was ready with the bottle to smash him over the head, it seems like an opportunity to be rid of him came up and they took it.
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