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Who is Charlie Gordon? Charlie Gordon is a mentally regressed that has a surgery to make himself as smart or smarter than an average man. After His surgery has many good and bad experiences, he also starts having moral questions about the surgery while he experiences the side effects. The question is was he better off before or after the surgery. Charlie Gordon was better off after the surgery.
The first reason that Charlie Gordon was better off after the surgery is he got to experience love. To quote him, he said “I’m in love with Miss Kinnian”. He would have never fallen in love with her because in the movie he says the she was “unreachable” when he was in his first state. The second reason is he what the world is like, before he thought

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