A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Michael Gover: Prison Governor

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• Minister : What crime did you commit?

  Alex : The accidental killing of a person, sir.

  Chief Guard Barnes : He brutally murdered a woman, sir, in furtherance of theft. Fourteen years, sir!

  Minister : Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. He'll do.

  Governor : Well, fine, we could still look at C-block...

  Minister : No, no, no. That's enough. He's perfect. I want his records sent to me. This vicious young hoodlum will be transformed out of all recognition.

  Alex : Thank you very much for this chance, sir.

  Minister : Let's hope you make the most of it, my boy.

• Governor : These new ridiculous ideas have come at last. And orders are orders. Though I may say to you in confidence, I do not approve. An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you, you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the state, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? The new view is to say "no." The new view is that we turn the bad into good. All of which seems to me to be grossly unjust, eh?