My Review of the Elephant Man

I think David Lynch is a brilliant man.  The Elephant Man was an exceptional movie that deserved many academy awards, but only got as far as getting eight nominations and not one award.  This movie was really touching and heart felt movie.  I don't think it only touched me, but my classmates as well.  Personally I loved the movie for its creativity and make up.  After reviewing the movie after finishing it, I thought more about the mysteries of life and if people are morally good or bad people.  The Elephant Man is about a deformed man who seeks for help to get cured.  He is treated like a circus freak and is frequently being beat by Mr. Bytes.  Here comes Dr. Frederick Treves to the rescue and takes him to a care facility.  Dr. Treves and others eventually learn that he is human and he does humanly things such as: speak, write and build models.  David Lynch made the Elephant Man as an ugly christ symbol for a reason.  He is ugly and deformed because of the fact that the world is ugly as well, meaning that there are some good things on this planet that eventually turned bad.  At the end of this movie, John Merrick dies in his sleep because he wanted to sleep like everyone else.

My Name is John Merrick

Today is the beginning of a new life or so I believe.  I was rescued by Dr. Frederick Treves, he is the real hero.  In the morning I went to a room full of doctors that hopefully are able to cure me.  They opened the curtain and I was revealed to the men.  "Turn around," Treves demanded.  I hate those words, I am not a freak. I was not put on this planet for everyones convenience. I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man! I leave the room to get home to Mr. Bytes.  He demanded to know where I was, but I did not speak a word to him.  He started hitting me as if I was some sort of animal.  I felt weak and horrible.  The little boy leaves to get help out there, while I wait at home with Mr. Bytes. The little boy gets home with Dr. Frederick Treves, my fellow hero.  He takes me out of that place immediately as he notices that I am not treated fairly.  I am now settled in the watch tower, hopefully my friend, Dr. Frederick Treves can cure me.

Welcome to my nightmare

Fear. What is fear?  Has something happened to you that scarred you for the rest of your life?  I think my biggest fear is losing my mom, some of my friends lost my mom at a young age and I notice them struggle in life.  I don't know what I would do without my mom in my life.   I have never had this dream more than once, but once was enough for me.  I can't ever say I take my mom for granted because I love and respect her.  I once had this dream where I was eight years old. In this dream I was the last one to know that my mom had cancer.  I got home from school and it was weird because my mom didn't pick me up, but it was my dad who chose to pick me up.  I get home to an empty house which was weird because my mom was always there when I got home.  Later my dad tells me that we were going somewhere.  We ended up going to the hospital and we saw my brother there as well. We go inside this room where they had my mom laying on a bed and I ran to her because I was so happy to see her.  She was having trouble keeping her eyes open and she tells me that I need to listen to my dad and brother and do whatever they tell me to do.  She starts telling me do be a good girl and get into a good college when I'm older.  I start asking her questions but she couldn't just answer me until my dad pulls me away. He told me that my mom wasn't going to be with us anymore. I start to cry and I ran to my mom.  That's when I woke up and I ran to go see if my mom was okay and she was.  I know we all die at one point, but I don't want to go through the process where I witness my mom pass away.