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Actors: Matthew Modine, Kelli Williams
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Flowers for Algernon |
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Charlie Gordon is a mentally retarded man. He gets made fun of by his coworkers and he has no friends. One day he gets selected for an experiment to make him smarter. He finally understands that peaple make fun of him. The experiment makes him into a genious and he falls in love with Alice Kinian. Suddenly, the lab mouse that they first tested Charlie's experiment died, and they think it is from the experiment. Charlie starts to become dumber and dumber as the doctors figure out how to keep him alive.
--Dashaun Montanez, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Flowers for Algernon |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- mental illness
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar
Age:
- 20's-30's
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Dumb?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Retarded
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
Setting
United States
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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