MANUFACTURER: UNKNOWN
PIECES: 1000
MOVIE: THE ELEPHANT MAN
NOVEMBER 23rd, 2016
This was the first time, but not the last time, that I had to deal with a puzzle that was in the vertical orientation. When I started working on it, my plan was to just do the puzzle sideways, which seems like a good idea but it turns out it feels very awkward kinda drives your brain a little crazy. So I decided to just work on an upper half and next to it the lower half, and then turn them sideways at the end and stitch them together.
Title for the puzzle is approximate. I was never able to find the same puzzle in person on online, but I did stumble across a picture of that same clock tower and apparently its in Meersburg, Germany.
The movie today was David Lynch's The Elephant Man, a fantastic and tragic film about Edward Merrick. I'm pretty sure the first time I ever heard about the real life Elephant Man was in dusty old copy of a book called Very Special People. The book details some of the most famous body malformations of the past. Reading the book and seeing the movie, you feel so very sympathetic to these people and their plight to just live a life of dignity. The cruelty that is shown to people with these disfigurements is sad and disgusting. I often wonder, since mistreatment and cruelty to people who look different is still a thing we live with today, would people who get enjoyment out of mocking others ever watch a movie like this and feel differently to how I feel when I watch it? Granted, now we hide behind the anonymity of the internet. But do they watch it and feel no sympathy toward Edward Merrick, and just want to laugh at him as well? I think the more realistic answer is that people like that don't watch thoughtful drama films like this anyway. Too bad, it may help. A
I also realized that I don't think I've ever seen anyone in my life who suffered from a severe physical malady like this one, or any of the others featured in Very Special People. I know there is a famous conjoined twin who lives in Minneapolis, and my brothers family saw them at an ice cream shop. It would be very startling to see a person with two heads, I cannot deny that.
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