Disabled People In The Movie Freaks Wa

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Freaks wa a very controversial film due to his decision to use acutally disabled humans in the film. The actors in the film were actually how they were in the film. This caused a lot of controversy because from an ethical standpoint most thought it was wrong to use real people in the movie that at the time were considered "freaks". At first it was very shocking and in a way disturbing to watch the movie because you are usually use to actors playing other people in movies and to think that these people are actually this way in real life was weird in a way. As the movie went on though you sort of got use to how the people looked and actually started to make connections and care about what happened to the people. I thought the depiction of the characters was wrong, but at the same time very accurate to the time when the movie was made and how people in that time viewed these disabled people. …show more content…

So many people aren't happy with how they are or want to conform more like the rest of society. In Browning's film, the only people in the circus that appeared to be "normal" were actually the most disturbed people of all of the circus. In really parralles with the phrase, "It's whats on the inside that really counts". The people of the circus stuck together and never let one another get hurt, they were a family because they were all that they had. I thought using this cast of characters was very effective because you had such disturbing looking people working in the circus and then the good looking people who also worked in the circus but the good looking ones were the ones who were evil all

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