Excellent drama

Rating: 9/10 (29 September 2012)

An excellent movie, though not exactly my taste in movies, it is unforgettable and a pretty strong movie. It's basically a movie about human suffering and how an individual can be completely excluded from society merely because of his/her physical appearance.
It tells the factual story of Joseph Merrick, a man born Victorian Britain that began developing physical deformities when he was about five years old. By his late teens, his physical deformities prevented him from working as a factory laborer and instead he had to make out a living by selling himself as a curiosity. By the later years of his life he moved to a hospital and died there, at the age of 27. The movie begins by showing how terrible was Merrick's job as a living curiosity and proceeds to show how he moved to a hospital, which became his last place of residence.
One can be deeply moved by Merrick's terrible life experiences in late 19th century Britain and France. Despite being a bit cliché driven, I would recommend this movie for everyone which is not very weak of heart, however, as this movie is heartbreaking.