If you can't help someone, at least don't hurt them.

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2013)

What is most outstanding about this movie is the directing, David Lynch being able to capture the details of the time that it's set out to be, a moderate feeling of how judgmental and how cold our society are capable of and shows us who the real monsters very well could be. It's were everyone tags along, kicking the outcast while he's down and no one will be pointed out or blamed since they are hiding behind each other, metaphorically speaking. It's a great cast you can't deny that, what I loved about it was that I actually felt that I was watching a movie from the past, it didn't feel like it was from the 80s, just make the picture and sound quality inferior and you could fool anyone. The great idea behind the black and white picture gives us a dull, yet magnificent indication of what kind of mood they are trying to distinguish.
Of course I can't leave out the acting, Anthony Hopkins performance is excellent, the way he displays his characters compassion shined bright right through him, and understood completely what he was assigned to do. John hurt, playing John Merrick aka "The elephant man" portrays in a convincing approach the beauty and sincere sides of the elephant man who also is a very deep and intelligent man, still so very shy and anxious.