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Beth 2022-02-22 08:02:00
true love is let it go
True love is letting go. After watching this film, I became stupid too, I was not high originally.
Charlie, from a mentally retarded, to a genius, and finally turned into a story about mentally retarded. Before he was about to become mentally retarded again, his lingering shadow of the past loomed... -
Cameron 2022-02-22 08:02:00
[Film Review] Charly (1968) 6.3/10
"If the plural of mouse is mice, the plural of spouse must be spice." a wisecrack from our protagonist Charly Gordon (Robertson), trying to convince viewers that it is something a genius would jest with his girlfriend, both sun-drenched, lying on a cozy meadow. But this is not the Charly we know in...
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Kamille 2022-02-22 08:02:00
As far as novels are concerned, movies can only be said to be quite satisfactory. Compared with the performance of the late Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man", the actor's acting skills were instantly compared. I didn't dare to report how much I hoped it could be adapted, but I still feel a little disappointed after reading it.
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Hattie 2022-03-16 09:01:07
Best Actor in the 41st Oscars: Cliff Robertson, other nominations: Alan Arkin [Where to Find a Confidant in the End of the World], Alan Bates [Injustice and Torture], Ron Moody [Orphan in the Fog] , Peter Otto【Winter Lion】
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Alice Kinnian: Any questions?
Charly Gordon: [upset about getting fired from his job] Yeah, I was wonder why people that would never dream of laughing at a blind or a crippled man would laugh at a moron.
Alice Kinnian: What happened?
Charly Gordon: My friends at the bakery got up a petition and then I got fired.
Alice Kinnian: Oh...
Charly Gordon: Is that an automatic law, something like gravity? Increased intelligence equals lost friends?
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Dr. Anna Strauss: [after witnessing Charly painting nude women, furiously at Richard] What are you trying to turn him into, some kind of a sideshow freak?
Dr. Richard Nemur: Now, Anna, don't be ridiculous.
Dr. Anna Strauss: You're pushing your program for his intellectual development much too rapidly. It has to keep pace with my program for his emotional development, or the imbalance will become dangerous! I thought we were to be satisfied with a minor miracle...
Dr. Richard Nemur: What are you afraid of?
Dr. Anna Strauss: ...to help a retarded human being become a more productive member of society.
Dr. Richard Nemur: He has shown no indication of any mental ceiling. So why are you afraid to reach for whatever that ceiling may be? In any event, we shall have to give Mrs. Kinnian her notice.
Dr. Anna Strauss: What?
Dr. Richard Nemur: All she can do now is ask him questions out of books that he's already absorbed. What he needs at this point is a giant step forward - new conceptualization, inductive thinking. And that calls for experts, not Alice Kinnian.
Dr. Anna Strauss: I will say it once more, Richard: Charly Gordon is still a child emotionally.
Dr. Richard Nemur: I don't agree.
