Response to Danielle's Entry

I was reading Danielle's entry titled "What is normal?" and I have to say that I agree with her. There really is not a definition for the word normal. We only consider things to be normal when they are within our comfort zones. Like Danielle said, everyone is a "freak" in their own way. The movie "Freaks" twisted the idea of NORMAL as conjoined twins, dwarfs, the torso man, a man that walks with his arms, etc. Ironically, Cleopatra, the beautiful woman, is portrayed as the odd one out. What we consider normal are the freaks in this movie. Cleopatra and Hercules are the villains and evil enough to try to poison Hans. Instead the "freaks" (what a terrible word) unite and bring down Cleo and Hercules. In the very end, Cleo gets a taste of her own medicine when she is some duck-hen-peacock looking thing. She was always laughing at others who weren't like her. I don't really watch black and white films but I actually enjoyed this one. I wonder what the reaction was like when people saw this in the 1930s.