The Last Laugh evaluation action

2022-01-18 08:01
The film was shot in the 1920s. At that time, the First World War had just ended, people's spirits were in chaos, violent, and unscrupulous, and European cinema also began a new rise. Film artists from France, Germany, and the Soviet Union began an unfettered pursuit of pure cinema, the "European Avant-Garde Film Movement." The war shattered the old stubborn regulations, and everything needed to be rebuilt. Film suitors began to push the wheels of the film forward based on their own understanding of video art. The French Impressionists focused on psychological description and tried their best to exaggerate individual emotions; the surrealist schools pursued pure stunts and brainstormed beyond rationality and return to chaotic reality. The Soviet Union began experimenting with film montages. The German expressionism has finally embarked on the road of realism from the intensive rendering. In the transition from expressionism to realism, indoor dramas and street movies have made great contributions. And this film is a masterpiece in a German indoor drama.
Expressionism creates a surreal, distorted illusion world that only exists in the character's brain through symbolic stage scenery and bizarre lighting and sound effects. This externalization of the character's emotional thinking has an experimental meaning and promotes the development of the film. After that, rigorous Germans began to explore the sociality contained in expressionist films. Developed a realistic indoor drama with small characters as the protagonist.
The plot of the film is extremely simple, which can be summarized as "the sorrow of the little man", which was also the theme of the performance of the German indoor drama and street drama at that time. An old man from a slum was proud to be the concierge of a big hotel. As he got older, he lost his strength and was demoted to be a toilet waiter by the manager. What came next to him was the despair of self, the contemptuous ridicule of others, and the guilt and fear after stealing vanity. But the end of the sorrowful vortex was unexpected, and the old man accidentally gained great wealth. Then he made a new judgment on the social class with his own ideas.
Although "Der Letzte Mann" is commendable in terms of the life emotions of the little people, everything is too exaggerated, and it feels like a puppet show. But this is also the way of expression of silent movies. It seems to be understandable, but as a modern person, I am not quite used to it.
The title "Der Letzte Mann" is very precise. The director of the screenwriter seems to want to tell us: a small person is not humble, as long as he recognizes himself and works diligently. The humble are the ones who dare not face their true status like old people, pursue the glory of hypocrisy, are willing to be the soil of the soles of the rich, and are complacent about it. In addition, the director also wants to express that the society was rapidly divided between the rich and the poor at that time, and the concept of class was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even replaced the individuality of the person as the criterion for judging people (the uniform of the old man can be more respected than him). Once again, even in the same class, there is no warmth, high-ranking flattery, low-ranking despise, and even his own niece does not want to recognize the old man without uniform.
The film is based on Николай Васильевич Гоголь-Яновский novel " Shinep adaptation." Никола́й Васи́льевич Гоголь-Яновский, as a critical realist writer who sympathizes with small people, tends to classify characters and judge people by category. This fits the method of expression of German indoor drama: the work focuses on "fable-like characters" to criticize All people, and the social reality reflected by it. When categorizing, the fullness of the characters is correspondingly lost. 
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  • Jeffery 2022-03-17 09:01:07

    5- The wedding drunkenness section comes to God. The application of light and shadow, the depiction of details, and many lenses can be included in textbooks. The overall emotions cannot be understood by me. 1. Never fall into a pitiful situation. 2. Correct your outlook on labor, and don't be humbled by mainstream values. The ending was not very happy, and the receipt was a bit procrastinated.

  • Olin 2022-04-23 07:03:54

    Middle Murnau work, adapted from Gogol's short story "The Coat". The film starred Emil Jannings (Emil Jannings) and then played the role of Mephistopheles in Murnau's other masterpiece "Faust". Emil was later to build momentum for the new Nazi regime, and with its downfall, he died alone in 1950.

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