Flowers For Algernon Movie Essay

The movie Charly made in 1968 was based off of the novel Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. This movie was directed by Ralph Nelson and the characters in this movie are Charly, Miss Kinnian, Algernon, Dr. Strauss, Dr. Nemur, and the 3 guys at the factory. I believe that the movie Charly is a great movie that I recommend others should watch because of its great camera angles and the acting. This movie was about a man named Charly who had a hard time in life and had trouble with simple daily routines and exercises. He raced an intelligent mouse named Algernon who had had the same surgery Charly would soon have. Charly could never beat the mouse until his surgery. He then started to learn more and more every day. Later on in his life Charly developed feeling for this woman named Miss Kinnian who was once married, but then her husband died.

While being interviewed he is asked to show Algernon, but the smartness effect had worn off of Algernon and he died. Charly rushed out of the building and ran home. Misss Kinnian asked to marry him, but Charly refused. Charly then asks Miss Kinnian to leave him alone. One thing I enjoyed abot this movie were that the Algernon-Gordon effect made Charly smarter and it wore off, but there was a shocking event that occurred that I didn’t expect to happen. The theme or moral of this movie is that you don’t always have to be intelligent to impress someone. The importance of this is that if you can be yourself than you will soon find the perfect friend. Charly is has brown eyes and hair along with a light brown skin tone. Charly’s hair is a little short. Miss Kinnian has brown eyes and hair along with a light brown skin tone. Her hair is a little long. Dr. Nemur has brown hair and eyes along with short