In "The Elephant Man", Molek was discovered by Dr. Telavi in a circus. Because of Molek's deformed appearance, huge head, super-long right arm, and tumors all over his body, he couldn't lie down and sleep. sit. and have asthma. So Telavi took him back to his hospital to take care of him.
I don't want to say more about the plot, but this movie is the most uncomfortable movie I've ever seen so far, and even I keep hoping that he will end soon, even if Molek is bullied and brought back to the circus , or being sent aboard and being chased, I've been hoping for his end. The depression and shock he brought me has always made my heart sad, and I must use pauses to ease my inner unease. And after watching him, I couldn't calm down. I kept recalling the choking scene in the film:
Molek was a guest at Dr. Travie's house, and after drinking tea, he saw the picture of the doctor's child and asked the doctor if he wanted to see the picture of his mother. "Your mother," even Dr. Travie was surprised when he heard this.
"She has an angelic face," Molek said excitedly, but immediately changed his tone, "I must make her very happy. Disappointed, I really want to find her, if she sees me with you, maybe she will love me too, I always want to be a good son." Mother may love her, what a sad sentence, I can't understand Molek's expectations when he said this sentence, maybe, the word mother has been repeated in his heart for many times, who can know How many times has he fantasized about seeing his mother, not asking God to give him maternal love, but a simple request that his mother might, just might love him. And he himself just wanted to be a good son. In fact, he was a good son.
There are two paintings on the wall, just single sketches. The first picture is of a child sitting alone on the bed, half-closed glasses, perhaps fantasizing about his future. The second picture shows him lying on the bed, with no companions around. The whole room is dark and light can only come in through the small windows on the wall. Even in this seemingly very lonely scene, for Molek, he had some expectations. He looked forward to "I hope, I can sleep like a normal person." Then, he asked Telavi with a slightly expectant look. Doctor "Can you cure me". "No." The doctor answered him very bluntly. I don't know if the doctor made countless judgments when he said this sentence, and he also wanted, even the slightest thought, to cure Molek. But that simple "can't" just destroyed Molek. So Dr. Travie quickly said, "We can take care of you, but we can't cure you, we can't." Maybe this answer was the result that Molek had known for a long time, but he still held a little hope and asked. For the doctor's answer, Molek was silent at first, and then, only a symbolic answer "I don't think so."
When the actress kissed Molek on the cheek and told him that you are not the Elephant Man, you are Romeo, then Molek burst into tears...
After this, people rushed to Molek's residence to meet He is proud. However, this is just an appearance. What the people around are doing is not to care about Molek with a heart of love, but to show their sympathy for the weak and deformed in a kind of vanity, a kind of perversion. The vanity of the heart. The people around come here just to despise Molek, to despise Molek's ugliness, and to achieve his desire to be in the limelight. They scrambled to pay to party to see him, they laughed at him, made fun of him, he gave him alcohol, made women kiss him with disgusting expressions, laughed at him together, took out the mirror, showed Molek to see his face and kept going exclamation. Today's people, why not.
At the train station, the fleeing Molek was chased to the toilet by people, unable to escape the onlookers of more and more people around, Molek shouted out the words that might have suppressed his life, "No, I'm not an elephant, I'm not an animal. , I am a person," he said in tears. It was his cry for a long time.
Molek said he was happy every moment of his life because he knew someone loved him. We could tell from the fact that he finally took off the pillow and lay down to sleep, at least he had let go of his concerns.
I don't know if he had a dream when he lay down, or if it was all just a dream: he was a normal child, normal, just wronged, blamed by his mother, and had such a strange dream That's all, at least it's not the first time that Lynch has done this. Mulholland Road and Yaoye Tracker have both explained the dream analysis very well. So I also hope, I hope that being human is just a dream, and I will feel much better in that way.
Elephant Man, Lynch used him to express this perverted society very well. People only ridiculed, ridiculed and spurned the weak. Molek went from being locked in a cage to being watched by people in a circus, to a doctor later. Take him back to the hospital, although he has received some improvement in treatment and has his own place, but he is just put into a bigger circus, which is filled with more spectators to watch him, laugh at him, and maybe occasionally Some people treat him with "kindness", but this is just a mockery in disguise. They think they are sound people, and advertise themselves as kind people to differentiate themselves from others, but since they dare not face them squarely Molek's eyes, even in his trembling hands holding the teacup, couldn't hide the hypocrisy. Even Dr. Moravi, whom Molek called a friend, saw Molek's tearful face for the first time, and his wife's painful cry when he heard Molek miss her mother, only to show that they were more than others. Just a little stronger.
There is no shortage of deformed people in our world, and there is no shortage of fools or idiots. Whether they are mentally deformed or physically, they are laughed at and rejected by others, and the potential self-superiority in human nature makes them distorted The mind is infinitely magnified when dealing with other people. It can only be said that we are so cowardly, and the cowardly can only take pleasure in the suffering of others. Cowardly humble self...
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