Under The Ugly Within The Beautiful

Rating: 9/10 (25 November 2013)

To start off with the movie the elephant trampling on the mother was a bit confusing to say the least, but later on in the film Bytes (the owner and freak show host), tells Dr. Frederick Treves about how this disfigured man came to be. Dr. Frederick Treves in the first part of the film (based in England), was visiting a circus when he fell upon a freak show . Feeling a bit curious to what was in this entrance (especially when it was certainly a private entrance). The English police shut down the Byte's Elephant Man sideshow presentation because, quote the chief of police, " It degrades anybody who sees it, even the poor creature himself". This action could of had something to do from the startled, crying, and frightened lady walking away from the side show.
Dr. Frederick Treves,(in the next scenes), is working on a man that got into a machine accident, mentioning to Mr. Hodger how their had been quite a number of machine accidents lately. A boy enters with a message, Dr, Frederick wants to see Elephant man for himself. This part of the film made me deeply sorrowful for the poor man; when Dr. Frederick Treves blankly starred at the disfigured human with tears creeping down his face. I myself felt that Bytes was an abusive animal in the beginning of the film when he pushed, yelled and mistreated Elephant Man like he wasn't human.
This was the brief glimpse of how this relationship with Elephant Man(John Curt), and Dr. Frederick Treves( Anthony Hopkins) came to be to blossom this magnificent movie. I loved the Rome and Juliet scene, it was inspirational, and Mrs.Kendall(Anne Bancroft) played a giant role in bringing the Elephant Man's hopes high to becoming a regular human being. When Mrs.Kendall played that poem skit out of the book changed my perspective on life, and showed me a great life lesson, even know you might not be perfect there is someone that loves you. The night porter ( Micheal Elphick), along with Bytes, tried destroying the Elephant Man's dreams of becoming normal, in which very menacingly, decry him to the public. Both Bytes and The Night Porter were the perfect resemblance of bullies and stereotyped society today.
Uses of dramatic experiences in this film are well written and love,despair,frightful occurrences, yet a hint of humor, and overall inspirational was displayed in perfect fashion in this film. To think even today some people look down and mistreat others, this film resembles todays society and the corrupt cruel world we live in. A surrealistic film indeed. I can watch this film again and every time I can place myself in the Elephant Man's place.