The film is adapted from a true story, and "The Elephant Man" has twice been published in the British Medical Journal.
Since the Elizabethan era, the "freak show" has become an entertainment life for the British people, but this kind of performance was also contradicted by the middle class of British society at that time, thinking that such a performance was immoral. People's curiosity about deformity has made it a special kind of performance, even a plausible job, and many people with deformity diseases do not consider it shameful to live on it.
Whether in the pursuit of fun or in the name of science, in the circus or in medical school, only class differences and contradictions remain the same. The elephant man is just a symbol, a microcosm of contradiction.
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