THE ELEPHANT MAN
A David Lynch film in black and white about a Victorian London surgeon who befriends John Merrick, a man with severe deformities, and discovers his intelligence and dignity. AI summary of the listing
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With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt), who has severe skeletal and soft-tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together,…
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