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"Eye of the Beholder" (also titled "The Private World Of Darkness" when initially rebroadcast in the summer of 1962) is episode 42 of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone''. It originally aired on November 11, 1960 on CBS. ==Plot summary== Janet Tyler has undergone her eleventh treatment (the maximum number legally allowed) in an attempt to look normal. The details of the treatment, other than that they are a series of injections, are not given, but Tyler is first shown with her head completely bandaged so that her face cannot be seen. She is described as being "not normal" and her face a "pitiful twisted lump of flesh" by the nurses and doctor, whose own faces are always in shadows or off-camera. The outcome of the procedure cannot be known until the bandages are removed. Tyler pleads with the doctor and eventually convinces him to remove the bandages early. As he prepared, the doctor develops great empathy for Tyler. The nurse verbally expresses concern for the doctor and that she still is uneasy of Tyler's appearance. The doctor becomes displeased and questions why Tyler or anyone must be judged on their outer beauty. This reveals more of their society, when the nurse warns him not to speak so as its considered treason. After a climactic build-up, the bandages are removed. The reaction of the doctor and nurses are of horror and disappointment. The procedure has failed, and her face has undergone "no change—no change at all!" The camera pulls back to reveal that she is actually normal. At this point, the doctor, nurses and other people in the hospital are revealed to be hideous-looking from our perspective, with large, thick brows, sunken eyes, swollen and twisted lips, and wrinkled, pig-like snouts. Distraught by the failure of the procedure, Tyler runs through the hospital as the faces of everyone she runs into, the norm in this society, are revealed. Flat-screen television screens throughout the hospital project an image of the State's despotic leader giving a speech calling for greater conformity. Basically showing that their leader firmly believes that people that are different-looking do not belong in their society. Eventually, a handsome man (by our standards) afflicted with the same "condition" arrives to take the crying, despondent Tyler into exile to a village of her "own kind", where her "ugliness" will not trouble the State. Before the two leave, the man comforts Tyler, saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Eye of the Beholder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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