He's not the elephant man.

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2020)

David lynch's expression is still experimental, had seen years before Japan stage version of the elephant man, more attention to the psychological description of characters, then don't understand why emphasize looks like people dies slowly lie down, see the understood because of his spine deformity, like normal person lie down and sleep become his dream, he is more a way of taking.
In the film, John self-imposed isolation from the start to have the friendship, and the doctors put him as their friends, and the doctor, but because of heart guilty can't respond to his friendship, dare not look into the eyes of his. Until in the end, also did not respond to his friendship, just say, see you happy I am also very happy. He knew he didn't do friends. When the doctor's position is out of curiosity, later see John at the moment of being touched, but everyone just sympathize with him, to feel sorry for him, that's right, the circus owner locked John and monkeys together, beat him, regard him as a beast, and he finally because doctors, has been treated as a person. All he wanted was to be human, to be able to walk, to be able to go to the theater, to be able to go to church, to be able to work, to support himself, not to depend on the handouts of others.
Why does the person who contradicts the doctor begin with, "you and your elephant man?" Is not John himself, he was "like a man" label on the champions league, and this label is posted on his face. The hands, body, is obvious. He need to cling to, a person is not his own is does not have its own role in the society, so he is the boss of the circus, he is a doctor, he is just an attachment, a property, a clown.
John was admitted to the hospital through the mercy of the doctor, the stage moved from the circus to the hospital, and the audience moved from the third class to the first class. In stage plays, like a person can't see myself, so you can't see the mirror, he can't face myself, "he is like a mirror", however, he is always ready to appreciate other people, "you are beautiful", "crutch is very good-looking," people find affirmation of the self through to his mercy, "look at this poor man, so alive, I can be a lot better",
Ironically, however, is so ugly appearance of John, in faith, in 21 years to recite the bible, is at the top of the house just looked down at the cathedral to sincerely to build up to the church, his spirit was not tainted by the reality, he have no hatred, he is just with gratitude, he always say thank you, for all the damage, no hate.
Finally found it, he said he felt himself, he finally don't have to hide in a dark place, finally is not like a person, but to a man called John. He built a church, "said the" end ", as if all his desire, not caring. His wish, is no longer a symbol, is no longer like a person, he is just an ordinary man, he knows that he is not the ordinary people, also is unable to be ordinary people, he can't through the normal sleep and to prove himself, but he finally completed the wish, too. So, as human being's heart, he need not to think he is like a person, he finally like personal living, like a So the story of man is over, and he is not finished as a man, just like so many other people, the day is eternal.