We could learn a lot from John Merrick

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2004)

This is one of those movies that makes a person yell or talk to the television screen. I am normally a quiet person in class, but sometimes words find their way out of my mouth. When Mr. Bytes told Dr.Treeves that John Merrick fell down a flight of stairs I could not help saying out loud, "Sure he did." It is the type of movie that makes a person want to get involved. He/She wants to reach into that screen and punch the mess out of the people that are being pernicious to John.
As the group of people in his hospital room made fun of him he looked dead and one would assume he felt that way. Yet, it is amazing, how in one part of the movie he says he feels happy "every hour of every day." When a person is having a bad day if they think about all he went through, what he/she is going through seems minute compared to the conundrums he had. Of course I know it also depends on the problems that person is having,but my point is, there is always someone out there who has it worse than we do. It doesn't mean our problems aren't valid problems, just means that there is someone out there who has it worse than we do.
He wanted to be normal, but when it came to emotions, he was like everyone else. We all have insecurities. We all want to be loved and accepted. A lot of people have the fear of being abandoned, as he probably did. We're also eager to please the ones we love, like he was in the movie when it came to being good hoping that he might find his mom some day.
I'm not trying to be heretic either, but it seemed to me there was an allusion to Jesus in the movie, where he says after completing the cathedral "It is finished." I believe we could learn a lot from John Merrick. May he rest in peace.