One of us’ is an exclamation. The same words the Freaks sang in the 1930s cult movie challenged the concept of normality. In a scene of the film, it’s the monsters who accept a “normal” person as one of theirs in a world turned upside down, in which not only are the physical idiosyncrasies of the circus characters normal, but they hide a good nature that seems to contradict their monstrous aspect. (Favilla, 2022)
Oh! This is exactly what I am doing for my project “Unleashed”. The difference is that in my project, humans are possessed by the force of demons and supernatural creatures that have roots in religion, and in Favilla’s work, they are the byproduct of contemporary society. But both subtexts that humans are now are uncanny wired beings who are living their everyday lives!
FAVILLA, GIACOMO. 2022. “ONE OF US.” giacomofavilla.com, accessed May 29, 2022. https://www.giacomofavilla.com/one-of-us/