Blog # 9 My Review of The Elephant Man

The movie The Elephant Man was overall the best movie that I have seen in black and white. I believe that it should have received academy awards because it had all of the factors that a movie needed such as suspense, plot, and a theme. I liked how the movie gives us a theme that you should never judge a book by its cover. I liked how every person had a specific judgment over John Merrick and then later on changed that judgment into a welcoming personality towards the monster. The movie also shows us that we are all in one point a monster; not physically, but instead mentally. The movie in the beginning gave me a disgusted look toward the elephant man, but as the movie progressed, I started to have sympathy towards him. The movie had a horrible ending although because John Merrick died in his sleep, but at the same time, it had an ironic ending due to John dying trying to sleep like a normal person.