My Review of the Elephant Man

The movie the Elephant Man was a very outstanding movie. I was impacted at the first sight of John Merrick. I had never seen a person who looked quite like him. The movie overall made me think about the kind of person that i am. Whether i was a good person or a bad person. It pained me to see the way John Merrick was treated throughout the movie. He was always being harassed by people and he was nothing but a good person, even to those who treated him so cruel. I right away felt sympathy towards John Merrick because i can tell it was not easy going on with life looking the way that he did. In very few instances he was treated like an actual human being and that really warmed my heart. Towards the end of the film i realized that many were impacted by John Merrick, like Dr. Treves and Ms. Kendall and so on. I feel as if John Merrick showed me something too because at the end of the film, it really made me question the way i view myself, and how i treat others different from me.