"Freaks"

While watching the movie "Freaks" in class, he made an interesting story line that displayed the treatment and life of freaks travelling in the circus. I liked the first half where they were all bonding and accepting each other. There was a range of disabilities that would have been considered freaks but they only saw that they were different. The second half of the movie seemed a little more like today, not that they crawl around on the ground in the mud after you, but that people pretend to accept them and right as something goes wrong they snap and resort back to the term "freak." I really liked this movie, it was very eye- opening to what disabled people were treated like in the circus and they faced normal problems like everyone else. I believe the freaks turned on everyone else because they felt insulted and were living up to their expectations. They could be normal people, or they could be the monsters that everyone saw them as.

Valerie Walden