As the film progresses, the dark side in David Lynch's eyes, a feeling of extreme powerlessness, is dominated, a group of people trapped by fate. Weak forces enslaved and oppressed.
From the movies, the joyous vaudeville told me that the world was never equal. The group of actors who entertain people should be said to be slaves, crippled elephants, born dwarfs, or "slaves" who cannot turn over for various reasons. Boss blindfolded for money. In order to have fun, in order to get rid of the tedious life, the big and small people who are looking for a place to spend money. It's worth noting, at the beginning of 5:35, the officer said this: "You can't do it, I know my right, I have the right to do it, and now it is, this exhibition insults the audience and insults This poor man, he's a freak." The boss: "Other than that, how can he make money?" After being forcibly closed by the police, the boss said to the curtain with the Elephant Man poster, "Run away.... My wealth..." The power of the government that insults people who spend money to have fun because of their ugliness, but are they forced to watch? interesting. Also, Elephant Man, who was rightfully kicked out of the human category because of a freak. The boss's sentence should be changed to "How can I make money" is very straightforward.
7:13 British doctor said during surgery "I've seen a lot of accidents caused by machines...the machines are so annoying, you can't reason with them at all,...it's a mess" Machines are like political control, look It seems correct, but there are still many problems. I think the reason why David Lynch designed this part is to show his identity as a doctor and secondly to express his attitude towards regulation, which is very clever.
After that, there was a wonderful "rescue" with true sympathy and false sensationalism. Elephant people also changed from slaves to family pets, still being dominated, and still not getting rid of their inhuman state. "You never mentioned his state of mind" "He is born imbecile, he is a complete idiot, beseech God, hope he is really an idiot" From this I can feel that the British doctor is a kind and upright being, His concern for human beings is so real, because what a human being goes through is unimaginably painful to a normal thinking person.
Elephant Man recited the twenty-third verse of the Book of Poetry in the hospital, and his pure, strong and soft heart, which was different from his appearance, showed his desire for beauty. At the same time, he is also weak and extremely inferior. He cannot accept the ugliness of appearance, and his mother has become the closest beauty to him. His surviving self-confidence, although still unable to change the reality, is like all people who think they are controlled by fate the same cowards.
There is a scene that I am very concerned about, like a man weaving a paper-like dream in the hospital room "Fantasy Santa Fe Church" The doorman guarding the hospital knocked on the window twice, the pause button stopped at 1:13:26, The back of the elephant, the panicked face in the glass, the beautiful building in the making, the malicious doorman outside the window. Heartbreaking, like an unarmed child facing a robber with a pile of plastic toys in front of his weapon! ...."night" nobles, slave owners, oppressed, the existence of slave owners is to always take out the mirror and tell the slaves that your "ugliness" is innate and cannot be changed. The Elephant Man's performance seemed to make the guard very satisfied. The doctor seemed to realize that the way he rescued the Elephant Man was actually the Bath method in disguise, and then it was a vote for the Elephant Man to fight for the right to live. After that, I gradually realized that the powerlessness that I continued to experience while watching the movie was brought to me by Elephant Man. From beginning to end, he never fought, he faced his true self, and built a beautiful world in an illusory and fragile small circle. , escaping reality.
The doorman charged money to bring a group of people to visit the "home" of the elephant people. Just a few seconds ago, he was still indulging in the beauty that the doctor was fighting for him. But so vulnerable.
But at the end, the enslaved rescued the Elephant Man, I could feel their trembling little hearts, a small revolution for the enslaved, the revolutionary significance was to help the Elephant man return to the hospital and complete the paper church. "Youkai can't escape the dungeon" "good, you know how to enjoy yourself." I think the biggest and most self-evident way in his life is to lie in bed and sleep like a normal person before dying.
Just being strong and patient is not enough. Maybe we should learn to fight for our rights. The world is inherently unfair, accept the facts that cannot be changed, and try to change the reality that is not static. The whole movie is still on the negative side. The world is impermanent, and the river water is constantly changing, isn't it?
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