Clevercell Very disappointing...

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

maxwellhayden It's nine o'clock on a Saturday The regular crowd shuffles in There's an old man sitting next to me Makin' love to his tonic and gin He says, "Son, can you play me a memory I'm not really sure how it goes But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete When I wore a younger man's clothes" La la la, di da da La la, di da da da dum Sing us a song, you're the elephant man Sing us a song tonight Well, we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feelin' alright Now John at the bar is a friend of mine He gets me my drinks for free And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke But there's someplace that he'd rather be He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me" As the smile ran away from his face "Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star If I could get out of this place" Oh, la la la, di da da La la, di da da da dum Now Paul is a real estate novelist Who never had time for a wife And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the Navy And probably will be for life And the waitress is practicing politics As the businessmen slowly get stoned Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone Sing us a song you're the elephant man Sing us a song tonight Well we're all in the mood for a melody And you got us feeling alright It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday And the manager gives me a smile 'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see To forget about life for a while And the elephant, it sounds like a carnival And the microphone smells like a beer And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar And say, "Man, what are you doin' here?" Oh, la la la, di da da La la, di da da da dum Sing us a song you're the elephant man Sing us a song tonight Well we're all in the mood for a melody And you got us feeling alright

preparefives I recommend this movie to people who have empathy and who can think sensibly. Maybe it can be watched by teens from 15-16. It's story about human, who wants be like normal people. Merrics ( the main character) hasn't got a family, because his mother was trampled by elephant, when he was in her stomach. This human was ugly and suffered from humiliation of public, because he worked on circus of freaks, where people was mistake for their. One day a young doctor Trivz, saw him and took for carrying. But Merrics can't live a usual life of normal people and his owner Baits is disappointed, when Merrics goes away with his savior. The film was directed by David Linch. In leading roles: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Ann Bencrot. It's good and strong drama, which will make you think about the attitude of the people and no tears anywhere, because in the plot you can't find a laugh's moments.

DonAlberto David Lynch has something of a reputation amongst what might be defined as Postmodern cinema. His films haven't always met my desires or expectations; not always have i been able to interpret correctly this or that hint in his films or to find out the meaning of one of his indisputable works of art.Yet, that's not an obstacle for my to be able to admit that he is as talented as any director out there. Stating the contrary would be both short-sighting and an unjustified attack on his talent. Besides, even if I don't share the same values his promotes with his cinema, I'll always admire someone who has enough grit to stick to his guns when needed, someone who upholds a certain view of what cinema should be like. The Elephant man is good prove of that and like with the best John Ford's films leaves you with sniff of good cinema. One can only kneel down and pray to God so it would never go ways, so it would stay with you, by your sided, through thick and thin, through your darkest hours.That's precisely the theme of the Elephant Man, as the protagonist, an Englishman who goes by the name of John Merrick is the embodiment of sorrow and despair. Born with deformities all over his body, his left arm is useless, his face looks torn as if it was run over by a steamroller.John Hurt is magnificent portraying this half man, half elephant. it bestows upon the character such solemnity and dignity that it's difficult to get your eyes off him. I couldn't image another actor doing a job as equal as good. There is a showdown as for performances between John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. The latter's character is a doctor that one day comes across the circus the Elephant man is travelling with. Out of interest and I'd like to think love decides to buy him off the manager. He took it to the hospital he works at and, at first, the sees in him everybody else sees: a monster. As times goes by, though, the monster's humanity and tenderness seep into the world and manifest themselves to everybody with the will to see. It's then when the doctor starts to see "through him".Just as the glimmering smile of a baby can shake off the lingering sadness that surround one's heart after a break up, you'll turn this movie into a memory, a moment of clarity an love to come back to when the monster we all carry insides us wants to take over.

eddiez61 This is a very early film in Lynch's professional career, his 1st major studio production following his much more personal, intimate and outrageously bizarre masterpiece, Eraserhead. That freshman effort is perhaps Lynch's most pure expression of cinematic artistry—a fiercely idiosyncratic, absurdly inscrutable gesture of audio/visual mischievous of the most masterful kind. Contained within Lynch's debut feature length movie can be found the bulk of the sublime ideas and ingenious cinematic techniques which infused all his later films with such shockingly vivid & visceral emotionalism. Eraserhead is such a powerfully effective bit of cinematic wizardry that upon witnessing it—no, upon being assaulted by it!—Mel Brooks was convinced that its mad genius creator had to be the director of the unusually odd film which he was producing, and thus David Lynch was hurled into the gaping, yawning, voracious orifice that is Hollywood film-making. Luckily, David Lynch had a magnificently talented cast (Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud, Anne Bancroft, Freddie Jones, and of course a brilliant John Hurt) as well as a superb script (Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren & David Lynch) with which to fashion his quaint Victorian period piece/archly Gothic nightmare monster movie. The narrative is strikingly concise and terse, almost bleak in its unadorned simplicity, yet more than ample to support the gargantuan mass of barely tolerable pathos which burdens nearly every scene. That's not to say it's a tortuous slog—no, not hardly. The Elephant Man is only as emotionally crushing as David Lynch has astutely calculated we can endure, and it regularly assumes a surprisingly delicate & buoyant demeanor. In other words, it's an intensely disturbing, wonderfully rich & rewarding emotional roller coaster. Lynch's monster is a ghastly creature dwelling in the darkest, dankest recesses of the human psyche, and it's by dragging us kicking & screaming down to those formidably threatening depths that he's able to then kindly usher us to the shimmering splendor of an equally remote but welcoming inner realm where resides compassion, empathy & genuine humanity. It seems it's only by directly facing life's most daunting, most ugly, most horrific truths can we hope for any real joy, or at least any relief. That's heavy, isn't it?