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Oma 2022-04-21 09:01:27

The story of Elephant Man is more like a beautiful fairy tale in my opinion than a nightmare. Although the background of this fairy tale is so dark: John was born severely deformed, separated from his mother since childhood, and later taken away by the circus owner as a tool for making money. Some...

Marcelino 2022-04-19 09:01:28

Later, the doctor wondered if he and the circus owner were the same kind of people, but he changed the place of detention to a ward, and still used the elephant man as an object in the exhibition to meet his professional needs? The doctor did profit from it. After all, the Elephant Man is a rare...

Leanne 2022-04-24 07:01:03

The first session of the Suzhou Art Association Restoration Film Festival. Black and white images have a feeling of the old times, when human technology has advanced to have machines and trains; but in an era that is far from gender and racial equality, the existence of the elephant Merrick has tortured everyone's conscience. Emotional man rather than a circus animal, yet too few people in that era treated him with kindness, even doctors, couples and actresses, only more kindly than others of the time. The nurse's response was more genuine, from resistance to love, and more compassion than doctors. I couldn't hold back my tears since Merrick and the doctor and his wife shared photos of each other and started to socialize with each other normally. The wiki has a real person, the circus experience is not much different from the film, but it is equally tragic, with a mild personality, not anti-social or anti-human.

Annie 2022-03-21 09:01:24

Black and white color and sense of era restoration