I read “Flowers for Algernon” in school, so I was looking forward to this movie, but right when he was at the apex of his intelligence, it jumps into a 60’s psychedelic scene that seemed out of place and made me not want to watch it any further (I’m not uptight, but it just seemed thrown in there for no reason)
You know, I thought exactly the same thing about the “groovy head trip” scene. It was the film’s weakest point, IMHO. Not only was it visually jarring, it glossed over a lot of Charly’s emotional development in order (I’m assuming) to keep the movie from running too long.