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Sound Bites:

1) "I am not an animal...": Wav


Poem written by John Merrick (includes actual photo): Click Here


Review: The Elephant Man, in my opinion, is one of the greatest motion pictures ever made. I saw the film back in the early eighties as a young child, and I can honestly still recall the experience to this day. The bizarre and eccentric director, David Lynch (Eraserhead, Twin Peaks), created a dark and bleak experience like few other films have. John Hurt's (1984, Contact, Midnight Express) acting is absolutely fascinating. You see Merricks personality and hope emerge from underneath the multiple layers of deformed costume. Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Shadowlands, Remains of the Day, Chaplin) is excellent as always, capturing the young doctors compassion and confusion. The music in the film is a haunting mix of carnival music and machinery. In the hands of another director, shot in color perhaps, this movie could have been entirely different & much worse, but fortunately Lynch gives us a complicated study on voyeurism and ethics in this disturbing masterpiece that haunts those it touches. Review by-Aaron Caldwell

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