Adult bakery janitor Charly writes and talks in class at a level below that expected for his age. (0:03)
Teacher and psychology student Alice tests Charly for abstraction and ability to categorize. (0:05)
Alice tells Charly to make up stories: “What happened in this picture?” Thematic Apperception Test? (0:07)
Researcher Anna reads to researcher Richard and Alice: “His performance IQ is 59, verbal 69, full scale 70."
"And we have other retardates who might be more suitable.”
Alice: "Doctor isn’t it true that the average retardate is overly sensitive and sometimes hostile?” (0:20)
Charly undergoes psychosurgery. (0:32)
Charly confronts a puzzle test. (0:34)
Anna, supervising a group of mentally retarded children, tells Alice, “You’re a psychologist. You know that Charly has made a transference and at this point is completely dependent upon you. Yes. He's involved with you emotionally.“ (0:55)
Doctor Richard tells Anna, referring to Charly, “With the next step that of attaining insightful function and the ability to restructure.” (0:01)
A young woman smokes a joint. (1:08)
Charly asks Alice, "By the way, how do your surgical techniques work on retarded computers?" (1:16)
Anna tells Richard, referring to the mice, “Some of the behavioral psychologists in the audience might care to see." (1:17)
Alice tells Charly, "There's absolutely no need to be nervous."
Charly: “No reason to be nervous." (1:17)
Charly tells the audience he sees “... a beautifully purposeless process of society suicide.” (1:23)
Richard tells Anna and Alice, “This regressive syndrome may be limited to the mice.” (1:32)
Charly thinks out loud about his brain research: "The cortical surface... for converting synaptic memory into DNA storage." (1:33)
Poster of The Absinthe Drinker by Degas on the door of Charly's apartment. (1:41)