This 36-year-old movie really gave me a lot of surprises. Its excellent soundtrack and cinematography really showed the standard that the film and television industry should have. Of course, the plot is also very smooth and decent.
But the above words are also a bit out of "hypocrisy", because after watching this film, the emotions I have generated almost make me unable to care about the technical aspects. Lynch's grasp of the depth of the film is already so skilled in his second work. .
After I read it, I didn't think it was just about the elephant man. In fact, he also analyzed the situation of people with special moods. I have experienced depression myself, and I have had a huge conflict in my heart. When you are accustomed to being neglected by this world, you can't help but have an instinctive fear. It's not like the situation of elephants is not the same, but he is more serious. When he is rejected by people because of his deformed appearance, he instinctively fears humans. But from the bottom of his heart, he longed for harmony with others, but he failed. Even if people came to see him one after another, and the surface was peaceful, but until the end of the play, he could not get rid of the shackles of his identity. He was an elephant, and he was destined to be Quarantine, how sad! This also conceals that people with mental illnesses are destined to be isolated from others before they are completely cured.
Maybe only two people in the whole film are pure; the elephant, the pure good, and the boss, the pure evil.
ps: Lynch is a director I admire very much. The films he directs can be called works. Each of his films is very deep.
Drive into Mulholland Drive, ride the lost highway, drive to the Inland Empire, erase your past with an eraser head, and be a truly pure elephant man in your dreams~
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