My Review on the Elephant Man

The Elephant Man was a life changing movie. The characters represent the good and the evil in this world, and it makes me realize what kind of person I am portrayed as. This is shown through the character's actions in the film. The Night Porter and Bytes abuse the main character, John Merrick, drastically. They beat him, they abuse him, and they use him for money. The abuse in the movie makes me realize how people can be cruel to someone else mainly because of their differences. The bad in the movie are to be learned from by the audience. On the other hand, the movie itself is just an amazing work of art. The black and white color of the film really brought out the film's true colors. Also, the make up on John Merrick is amazingly incredible! John Merrick is a strong character in the film because after so much abuse he remains to be a polite and kind person. He also learns that the London hospital and Dr. Federick Treeves are a blessing to him and they are dearly someone they can call home, since Mr. Merrick never really had a home in the first place. All he had was a picture of his mother who had the face of an angle, but she was in the heavens. With that being said, an analyzation of John Merrick and his mother is created. John Merrick represents the creation of mother nature(his mom) and in the film it shows how people in their own world are destroying mother nature's creations with machinery because had not there been pollution, Mr. Merrick would have turned out to be good looking. Overall this film emphasis the good and the evil, a splendid film. 10 of 10. Many lessons learned.