Freaks

In response to the movie Freaks, there were a lot of things to talk about running through my head. I was at first fairly confused by the movie and all that it entailed. I thought that it took a new look at the circus and the lives of the people who worked as part of the sideshow. There was a lot of things going on in that movie that did not make sense but as a whole I feel that the movie got its point across. I think that the idea of dehumanizing someone and playing on the concept of normality was highlighted in this film. I thought it was an interesting parallel showing how the people who deemed normal and beautiful from the beginning turned out to be the worst people inside. The movie did a good job of playing on how we as an audience are so judgmental simply by what we see. Seeing the different "freaks" in the beginning of the film was all purposeful because the director was trying to create as big a serperation between them and the "normal" people like Hercules and Cleopatra. These were people who we immediately deemed as normal and misplaced in the circus environment but as the movie progresses, we see them as actually terrible people who are disgusting inside but that is not someting that we consider at the beginnning. I thought that this movie did an excellent job at switching the audiences emotions from feeling sympathetic and angry to completely opposite extremes.