David Lynch's story is the dreadful, agonizing paradox of Merrick's existence, affecting us with both pity and terror, as a kind of Crucifixion. It does condemn a ruthless and greedy society, but even more it challenges us to rise to Merrick's sublime love of his fellow humanity, afflicted and injured by material corruption in this world.
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