Director Tod Browning was a product of the circus life. He grew up in a circus with maniacal clowns, hairy women, and human deformities lined up for our entertainment. So it sheds some light on the reality of our idea of ​​what is weird and what is normal. The film begins with a disclaimer about its subject matter, set in the format that would later be adopted and slightly modified by Star Wars. He calls the film a “very unusual attraction,” in keeping with the film’s circus theme. We have a history of beasts who were born abnormally and did not fit into society like Frankenstein, Tom Thumb, Thumbelina, Goliath and Nosferatu. These things were all feared but they also fascinated us. Tod Browing goes on to explain that it is a natural urge to be beautiful in all species. To pass on your genetics to the next generation, you had to be a desirable mate and abnormalities won't be enough. Judging so-called monsters has been going on for thousands of years and is a taught habit. The emphasis is on the monsters' code for staying together, as it says, “the evil of one is the evil of all; the joys of one are the joys of all,” demonstrating that there is a deep need to stick together in a world that pits them against each other. He ends this introduction with “We present the most surprising horror story about the abnormal and the undesirable.” Both the word “abnormal” and the phrase “undesirables” are in bold. I see this as an emphasis on circus performers being deformed, mentally deficient and otherwise mutilated and it shows in a nutshell how many people have labeled them and others like them for thousands of years. The film emphasizes their normality. We don't see many of their performances at the circus but we do see their lives outside the big top. ...... middle of paper ......e Hercules who was his accomplice. She becomes “the duck woman” without legs, without feathers, with a padded chest and she cannot speak, only quacks. Browning shows the "monsters" as ordinary people, through their affection for each other and their ability to express compassion and response to others. injustice, as any of us would do. It proves that they may not look like us, but they can feel and many of them, except for the pinheads, can think like us. They formed close bonds with each other to protect each other from their circus colleagues and audiences. The real people who should be ridiculed are the ones who look like us, but they are cruel and manipulative. It’s like the old adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” When Cleopatra is now in her own exhibit as the "duck woman", she is now among the same people she ridiculed and disapproved of..