scary, or is it just me

Rating: 5/10 (11 January 2009)

i am so glad i read lots of comments on this movie particularly the ones that hit the nail with me...i read reviews on this film,beautiful,heart wrenching, moving,is it just me i thought,the best review i read on here was "its not black and white", "its black and grey" I'm haunted by this film, yes it got me interested,but it also put me off living, sleeping and eating for about a month, till the vision went away.........so i guess you could say job well done...don't get me wrong its a brilliant movie,but to me its horror,but it also got me interested in the subject,apparently he was a famous icon in 1900 england and yet before the film no one was really any the wiser,i also read that the mentioned Joseph Merrick wasn't as dumb as it seemed stories of him renting out a shop to show himself off to make money from his own appearance,so a keen business brain too,i too have seen the allegedly real cap of his,they had an ELEPHANT MAN exhibition in Madame Tussuad's in Blackpool,why i went i don't know cause i knew it would throw me for a while but all the same i went...recreating the dark streets of old London town, very romantic, and there he was in the corner in all his waxed glory, bloody terrifying,the one thing that sticks with me on a lighter note is English comedian frank skinner had done routine talking about the elephant man and was saying how while watching the movie he noticed that he didn't look like an elephant but his head looked more like fresh ginger,but obviously it would be bad business to be paraded around various cities as the "AMAZING GINGER MAN"