The Man Without a Face Movie

"The Man Without a Face" was a very good movie that showed an unexpected friendship and bond between two different people, a boy and a man.  The movie showed how a man who excommunicates himself from his town because of his looks and be alone can have so many made up stories and false rumors portraying him in a bad and scary way. While at the same time a young boy named Chuck is dealing with the problem of not getting into the boarding academy as well as the mystery of what happened to his father. They both stumble across each other when chuck accidentally leaves his books on McLeod’s property and learns he is an ex teacher. At first chuck seems to be scared and interested in the man and thought of him as repulsive and mean as well as his teaching abilities pointless, but through time they develop a friendship where the fear and disgust is gone. They develop their relationship with each other through learning and getting to know each other.

Chuck has gone through life as being considered the family “retard” where learning has become an issue especially when reminded by his older half sister. Chuck is perceived as misunderstood and dump because of the dull look on his face when he spaces out. Life hasn’t been the best for him especially because of his older half sister who shows great hatred towards him and his unknown father, that later you figure out he was addicted to alcohol and died in a mental institution. Chuck wants to go to a boarding academy to escape from his family and life with his mother and two half sisters, but his grades don’t meet the requirements for getting in.

McLeod is a guy that is a loner in the town and is also misunderstood because of his appearance and lack of communication. He is an ex-teacher who taught at an academy and has a disfigured face from a burn that was a result from a car crash. Everyone is frightened and curious about who he really is and what he does. The adults think he is a murder or has been active in crimes and the children call him hamburger face and make up scary stories about him. McLeod is scary towards children from his appearance and makes it hard to find trust in him. He is also hard to communicate with because he tends to be alone and has no one to talk to.

By fait these two crossed paths and Chuck learned to overcome his fears of McLeod appearance and be able to see the good within as well as the knowledge and kindness he has to offer. Not only does chuck overcome his fear and learn to trust McLeod, McLeod learns to trust others and to become more active again with other instead of subjecting himself toward people. Throughout this movie the two form their friendship through learning and getting to know each other and challenges of their past. McLeod can be seen as a father figure in Chuck’s life, that he is deprived of, that he needed. Also Chuck learns to see a person more than their appearance because he even says that he’s gotten to know McLeod and spend time with him that he doesn’t even see the scares on his face. Through their time spent with each other and the information taught to Chuck you see that he can trust McLeod because they have become so close in their friendship and understand each other and their problems from the outside world.

Chuck surpasses his fear and doubt that was raised by the rumors by getting to know McLeod and to bond with him through learning. Chuck saw that he was a teacher and was able to really get over his fear by having McLeod tutor him. Through their learning experience the two get to know each other and connect. When the movie starts to come to the end people start to perceive their relationship as odd and make accusations like McLeod is molesting Chuck or trying to compare McLeod’s previous pupil, who died in the car crash that he was in. it so important for McLeod that Chuck not "cheat" on the problem of using his freedom to decide on his own whether the rumors are true because Chuck should know that through their time together that no rumor that was ever said was true because they both knew the truth about each other. In the end the movie was very good and was really interesting between the boy and the man as well as their connection to each other.