My Review of The Elephant Man

I thought the Elephant Man was an amazing movie because John Merrick was a beautiful person despite how he looked on the outside. Even though he was a terrifying person I really liked how the first reaction Dr. Frederick Treeves has when he first laid eyes on Merrick was that he shed a tear.  Anyone else who saw John Merrick for the first time is that they either screamed in terror or they pointed and laughed, however his very good friend Dr. Frederick Treeves felt his pain the very first time that he laid eyes on John.   Another thing that compelled me even more to this movie was that John Merrick had the innocence of a child, and this struck into the appeal of most of the audience because in the movie an innocent child was being abused and laughed at for the way he looked. Either way this movie was amazing because we see how the people change in it, John Merrick was at first terrified of the world and the people in it, but towards the end of the movie he builds up the courage to tell him that he in not an animal but a human being just like they are, that part was the most compelling and moving scene of the whole movie. 

My Name is John Merrick

On the day that the Night Porter snook into my room and brought all those people to come into my room I was terrified. I was afraid that the night I spent with those horrible people would be the last night I spent of my life. In the hour before he arrived, I had finally began to feel comfortable with myself and thought people had finally began to see me as an actual person instead of the terrifying “Elephant Man”. Unfortunately for myself I became aware that even outside of the cages and circus tents I could still see freaks everywhere. These freaks were there inside my bedroom they crackled like hyenas and reeked of sweat and liquor enough to turn and respectable person into much of an animal, yet I had never had a drink in my life and people to that day considered me an animal. The day I truly became an animal was the first day Mr. Bytes exposed me to the public of London, but even though I was always an animal, I never wondered why humans all looked the same, and why I looked different. Humans are all made the same way on the inside they all have organs, intestines, and beating hearts, on the outside they all looked the same, except me but only I was encaged and branded as an animal, while they crackled like hyenas and smelled like liquor, even so, I can consider myself as more of a human than they could ever hope to be. 

Welcome to my Nightmare

Nightmares dont always make sense, sometimes they aren't even about things that you fear, but just the slightest signal that you are scared can change the whole dream into a terrifying nightmare. Fear is only in someone's head. When people are afraid of the dark they hesitate to go about, but if the lights were on they would proceed as follows, then what is the big deal? When someone fears a certain person, object, or even topic it is usually because something traumatic has hppened to them, however to any other person who hasn't had that particular experience will not get why that person fears something the way they do. Fear and mind tricks are practically the same thing because even the most when someone is scared their mind tends to overanalyze the situation that they are in, imposing the idea that they are scared, where in reality if they just took a moment to recollect their thought instead of letting them scramble at the first sense of fear they would be much more relived when they realize that what the shadow they thought they saw in the dark was just their eyes adjusting to the dark. In contrast to fear everything has a logical explanation, but when there is something you cannot explain the best thing to do is to realize that in even the darkest of times happiness can be found if only one rememebers to turn on the lights.