layer upon layer of sadness

I don't like David Lynch's movies. Although many non-mainstream audiences who flaunt his personality highly praise him, I have watched his "Meet You Too Late" for many years, but I turned it off without the patience to watch the ending. I went to bed. Later, I watched his "My Heart is Wild", and I felt disappointed. I almost had to bite the bullet and finish reading an extremely boring story. The tricks in those shots were not very pleasant. Even if it's weird, I always like the quiet type, I don't like the formalism that is too superficial, he likes to engage in turbulence, division, violence and flamboyance. The gloomy format made me have little expectations for him, and I kept his other films on the shelf until "The Elephant Man".

I must admit I am a mainstream vulgar audience because "The Elephant Man" made me cry.
Many non-mainstream audiences who love David Lynch take "The Elephant Man" as a mainstream movie, but they disdain the old film as a signature movie. This is indeed a well-structured and well-behaved work that has won many awards. I don't want to talk too much about the structure of the movie, etc. I was just moved by such a person.

Born as an elephant, there are almost only two fates, one is for the timid to scream when they see it, and the other is to be used as an entertainment tool by the daring. Of course, later it has a fate, that is, it is used as a specimen of human flesh for those noble and benevolent people to exhibit love.
His birth was a mistake, so his tragic fate was doomed early.

Innocently, when he shouted to people: I am a human, I am not an animal, his fragile mind must have collapsed to the extreme.

He was almost never treated as an extraordinary man, taken to circus exhibitions by cruel bosses, used as specimens by noble doctors, paid to watch by curious people, and imprisoned in animals for not performing well. In the cage... Every scream and ridicule of people is a deep injury to his heart, he fears, avoids, hides, tumors all over his body, the pain becomes a habit, and he cannot sleep like a normal person. He is human, but he has no rights that anyone can have.

He has always been kind, and despite all the ostracism and trampling around him, he still looks at pictures of his dead beautiful mother, reads hymns in the Bible, and fantasizes about being the protagonist in a classic drama in the dead of night. , relying on fantasies to fold those buildings he likes... But all this is useless, no one can save him, such a person was born as an extreme mistake, no remedy and special care can rescue him.

I don't want to repeat my disgust and despair for human nature. Just imagine that if I stand in front of an elephant, I might scream and run away like all the other people I think are ugly. Saying anything is powerless and futile...

For several days after watching this movie, I have not been able to regain my peace of mind. The emotion and sadness it brought to me is too serious. Later, I watched a few more movies, and I wanted to ease the sadness in my heart, but until now, when I write this article, it is still difficult for me to calm down my bad mood.

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