Elephant Man provided me with the most spiritually fulfilling film experience I’ve had so far. To me this film proved to me that Lynch has a heart of gold, to balance his head of a million ideas. It brings out the deep-rooted human compassion that we all have in us, buried beneath various complexes and fears. To see a person tormented the way John Merrick was, only to see him live gracefully with love, has such an incredible effect on the soul.