Are you on the spectrum? After Elephant Man I said Withnail and I to which you replied the answer was an equally quotable film and then here is the logic I was referring to... Not drink but drugs but logic not far off.
But your first guess was the elephant man. Are we just supposed to ignore that hideous guess because it doesn't fit your narrative? I think not Chemo sabi.
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