The whole film only lasts more than sixty minutes. According to the book "The Devil Show", it was because the excessively violent and bloody scenes in the film were deleted in order to pass the review at the time. But the real freak actors in the film are enough to make the audience dumbfounded.
Men with only the upper body, worms without limbs, small-headed men...In the film, the dwarf is already considered the mildest "deformity". This kind of no special effects, completely real human deformity, makes me feel complicated. On the one hand, one would think that freaks are also humans, and they don't want to grow into this way. They are pitiful because of the strange eyes of the public because of their unselectable looks. On the other hand, seeing the freaks in the movie makes me feel uncomfortable and hard to accept them.
The movie tells the story of a circus. A dwarf falls in love with a tall and beautiful woman. The woman marries him for money but insults the freak group at the wedding banquet. In the process of poisoning the dwarf by the woman, she was retaliated by the freak group and turned into a monster with feathers and no limbs.
Some critics say that the whole movie reveals hypocrisy, which seems to show sympathy for the freak, but it is only the use of the freak as the selling point of the film. The images of freaks were displayed on the big screen, and they suffered a lot of damage. After the filming of this film, the freak actors in it basically kept silent about the performance.
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