Post by Kelley on Mar 25, 2006 15:29:03 GMT -5
"I am not an animal... I am not an animal... I am a human being!"
OK I am not sure from time to time what films I like the best... but this is truly perfection on Anthony Hopkins' part. I do not think the man has done a bad film!
The life that John Merrick lives is just so painful to see portrayed and when they cage him in with the monkeys, I do not think there could be anything more inhuman!
Sure, maybe he is "hideous" by standards of beauty... but the man has a heart of gold!
The ending is simply... (do I like anything with a happy ending, I cannot think of one!) soul shattering. He is to sleep with the pillows propped up so that his Bronchitis and deformities do not cut off his breathing, and after one of the best nights of his life, he decides to leave the world on that note... and removes every pillow... and passes on to a world that will be much kinder to him.
OK I am not sure from time to time what films I like the best... but this is truly perfection on Anthony Hopkins' part. I do not think the man has done a bad film!
The life that John Merrick lives is just so painful to see portrayed and when they cage him in with the monkeys, I do not think there could be anything more inhuman!
Sure, maybe he is "hideous" by standards of beauty... but the man has a heart of gold!
The ending is simply... (do I like anything with a happy ending, I cannot think of one!) soul shattering. He is to sleep with the pillows propped up so that his Bronchitis and deformities do not cut off his breathing, and after one of the best nights of his life, he decides to leave the world on that note... and removes every pillow... and passes on to a world that will be much kinder to him.