...Nothing will die...

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2008)

...Nothing will die...in this cinematic masterpiece! a truly remarkable achievement by all the cast involved. Not an easy subject to portray, but they managed to present it with great dignity and reality. Great direction from the "highly imaginative" David Lynch, with superb and inventive black and white cinematography, gripping and beautiful sound and music, and lot of fascinating dark atmospheric and surreal fairy tale moments; I particularly liked the scenes where Dr. Treves went to visit for the first time John Merrich the "Elephant man" with the circle and all the claustrophobic and tiny lighted corridors and the one where the "freaks" liberated from the cage and from his owner "human monster" the Elephant man and carried him along the edge of a river. But this movie should be mentioned as well for the great acting by all involved and particularly by John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins, and for the story and excellent script, with many touching moments and deep meaningful teaching experience on human life and how inside monster in appearance we can find the greatest heart and mind on earth and perfect examples of integrity and human intelligence. This movie should teach us to have truly respect for any human being on earth and that we can learn great values from each of us.
This is my first written comment of a film and my first for IMDb, which I thank a lot for having created this great site for cinema lovers. Hope I've done all right with the clarity on the comment as the English is my second language and sometimes I find very hard to find the right words for my thoughts.
The Elephant Man is one of my Top 10 films. However I'm not easy to give a film a full ten, for this film I can't just avoid it and so my vote will quite simply... be 10 out of 10!!