The Elephant Man's Word is one of the few mainstream works of David Lynch. After reading it, I felt less of the sense of surprise that I had when watching "Eraser Head" before. It's more mainstream. On the subject of civilized discussion, the duality of people and religious beliefs, I don’t want to say more, but I will say something that I find interesting.
The Elephant Man's design is quite in the style of David Lynch. His birth is shocking and sympathetic. The beginning is a woman's beautiful face, but the camera begins to shake violently, and the woman is knocked to the ground, shaking her head and struggling in pain, In front of her is an angry/qing elephant, the camera shakes, the trunk lifts up, and the personal feeling is full of hints of x. And John Merrick's face is ugly because of the elephant's intervention. This ugliness is more common than the ugliness in "Eraser Head". From a romantic point of view, the elephant man yearns for beauty and has pure beliefs. He is familiar with the Bible and thinks Chapter 23 is the most beautiful, and he can't help reciting it; Speechless, he longed to be good, long to be loved, and when he later realized he was truly loved, every word he said to the doctor took "my friend"; he hadn't really been to church, but he was still religious He built it together, and eventually he passed away in his sleep with these beautiful things. From a realistic point of view, the Elephant Man is fragile. Even if he is treated well in the ward, he still has nightmares. He carefully tried every item in the vanity box and immersed himself in an illusory dream. Later, the farce in the ward knocked his sweet dream. It was broken, but he closed his eyes like a puppet and let others play with it. When he escaped back to London with the help of the circus members, he felt true love. Facing the usual curiosity and contempt of the crowd, he finally shouted: "I' m not an animal, i am a human being." The primitive evil of the child, the mockery of the vulgar people at the bottom, and the evil of curiosity are obvious, while the evil of the civilized man is concealed under the cloak of civilization, and in the end it looks like a human being. The fantasy-like language of the scenes in the drama can still reflect the images of people being abused. The warm applause of celebrities is the victory of civilization, but it cannot give real love to the elephants. The final liberation of elephants is fragile, not real redemption. . The doctor's increasingly pale face and heavy expression hinted at the reflection on civilization and the contradictions in the human heart, and the doctor's expression was far-fetched and heavy until the elephant man won a round of applause. In addition, I have to say that the farce in the ward is a pure evil carnival. The appearance of the two prostitutes is very well designed. This corresponds to the normal situation of the elephant man szqg mentioned before, and the spraying of alcohol is also
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