My Review of The Elephant Man

The Elephant man was a very interesting, disturbing, and uplifting movie in many different ways. In each one of the distinctive categories the director David Lynch was able to take his own thoughts, twist them all around and create the movie The Elephant Man. The Director was able to tie into the movie what he believed, we as human beings are doing to the mother earth. The theme that Lynch is conveying in the film is that we are not only hurting her, but also “raping” mother earth without any remorse. The outcome of this tragedy is men, of disfigured forms, because if we are treating our home as normal as possible, we do not deserve to be normal. The fact that David Lynch is able tie in his beliefs within a film that is based on true events is astonishing. This theme, and I guess you can say the director really got me thinking, the fact that this movie was released in 1980; and people today can see no changes have been made but rather “deformities” of our mother earth. The disturbing part of the whole film, is the fact that people can be really “disgusting” in the way we treat on another. The fact that we would treat another human being differently just because of appearance, horrifies me. John Merrick was not a creature nor an animal at all, but rather a kind hearted, sincere, gentleman. Another theme I think Lynch may have created is that, we need to stop seeing the outside layer of all individuals, objects, and topics. We need to start looking and understanding the underlying context of everything and take into consideration of what everything in the world really stands for. We need to stop sugarcoating evidence, and reveal the truth beneath it all. This is my review and take on David Lynch's The Elephant Man, I guess we are all Elephant men in some way or form.