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Forbidden Love / Nature's Mistakes

USA 1932
produced by
Tod Browning, Harry Rapf, Irving Thalberg for MGM
directed by Tod Browning
starring Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Henry Victor, Daisy Earles, Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Rose Dione, the Hilton Sisters (Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton), Schlitze, Josephine Joseph, Johnny Eck, Frances O'Connor, Peter Robinson, Olga Roderick, Koo Koo, Prince Randian, Martha Morris, Elvira Snow, Jenny Lee Snow, Elizabeth Green, Angelo Rossitto, Edward Brophy, Matt McHugh, Burgess Meredith, Murray Kinnell, Michael Visaroff, Albert Conti, Mathilde Comont
screenplay by Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Charles MacArthur, based on the story Spurs by Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins

review by
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A carneval sideshow: Midget Hans (Harry Earles) has long been the fiancé of midget Frieda (Daisy Earles), but he can't help being fascinated by trapeze artiste Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova), a normally grown woman who feels nothing but contempt for the sideshow-"freaks" and has something going on with strongman Hercules (Henry Victor) - but she likes the gifts Hans gives her and constantly borrows money from him. Frieda begs Cleopatra to let Hans go for her sake, but accidently lets it slip that he is about to inherit a vast fortune - and the next thing you know, Cleopatra gets married to Hans ... in a ceremony in which the sideshow freaks want to make her one of theirs symbolically, much to her horror, and during which she humiliates Hans. Hans forgives her though, and from now on, she starts poisoning him, but soon enough, Hans's freak friends find out, and eventually, during a thunderstorm, they have their revenge on her, turning her into the biggest freak, a half human, half bird hybrid.

 

Most often, Freaks is labelled as a horror film, which it, apart from the atmospheric finale, simply is not. Instead it is a very humane film, taking a compassionate yet kitsch-free look at the lives of its sideshow performers, who apart from being physically deformed, are humanslike you and me with an exceptional sense of community. The real freaks on the other hand, the monsters, are the normal people, those who think themselves superior to those who are different in whichever way. Now all of this makes the film sound like one of these cheesy movies that try to hammer home their obvious messages in the most obnoxious ways - but Freaks is no such thing, it's a very subtle and subtly narrated drama that might not have much new to tell on a narrative level but uses its scenery and in fact its subject matter in the best bossible way without exploiting its performers.

A classic and a must-see.

 

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