"The Unknown" this crazy circus melodrama is the iconic work of director Tod Browning and actor Lon Chaney
The whole movie is full of hints, symbols, and weird atmospheres. The protagonist in the film "the armless man" symbolizes Sigmund 's fear of castration-when people unconsciously feel that the limbs, eyes, and genitals of the "self" are in danger. When you are in the middle, you will create an alternative image that takes the danger instead of yourself. Director Tod Browning used the film to prove that he is a master of creating visual representations of these alternative images
, As if conducted a brilliant study of Abnormal Psychology
. However, the script of the film is somewhat like a plot script made by someone in a hurry.
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Alonzo the Armless: No one will get her... no one but me!
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Malabar the Mighty, Circus Strongman: See, Nanon! Eyes that adore you... hands that long to caress you... and strength to protect you! Why do you always draw away from me?
Nanon Zanzi: Why isn't he different from other men! Why doesn't he keep his hands off me?
Nanon Zanzi: Hands! Men's hands! How I hate them!
Nanon Zanzi: Men! The beasts! God would show wisdom if he took the hands from all of them!
Nanon Zanzi: Forgive me, Alonzo... I did not mean you.
Nanon Zanzi: You are the one man I can come to without fear.