Day of Wrath Comments

  • Danielle 2023-09-27 21:58:24

    The minimalism of the scene and narrative does not diminish the conventional effect it should have achieved; the precise design of light and shadow replaces the actor's expression, which may be the earliest attempt to treat the actor as a mere (moving or still) shape; I like funerals the most In the passage, the positional relationship presented by the traverse is used to expose the truth about the justice of the characters' actions. It must be said that Dreyer knows how to make good use of...

  • Robbie 2023-09-18 09:35:03

    Dreyer loves to judge...

  • Jaydon 2023-08-02 18:48:00

    Dreyer's film is even narrated by shadows. The contrast between light and shadow in this film is more remnant of German expressionism. The plot is more complicated and ambiguous than Joan of Arc and Promise, and each character cannot be evaluated in one...

  • Kiley 2023-06-18 14:27:37

    Faith to God; secular to human nature; retribution of attribution; light and shadow, to...

  • Branson 2023-06-16 10:30:48

    Start with revenge and end with revenge. The possessiveness of an old mother. In order to protect himself, the son quickly turned his face away from his stepmother Annie. The pastor liked that his wife, Anne, was a holy object and could not give her the joy of being a human being. When the old witch's "curse" on the priest's colleagues was fulfilled, the priest finally felt guilty and frightened that he used his power to let Anne's mother let go of Anne's mother. light and...

  • Crystal 2023-06-15 16:19:17

    Human ignorance and superstition, although it is about the persecution of witches by religion in the Middle Ages, insinuates and mocks the Danish society under the control of the...

  • Albina 2023-06-05 16:22:50

    Religion and ethics, light and darkness, longing and...

  • Josue 2023-06-03 06:01:02

    Mysticism, religious...

  • Winnifred 2023-06-01 21:30:08

    8.6; Seriousness and...

  • Lillian 2023-05-28 22:27:42

    9. Dreyer is very good at photographing stories with religious backgrounds. In this film, Dreyer believes that the church distorts the essence of God, and uses this as an excuse to persecute "witches" or "infidels" in their eyes, so in this film, Dreyer casts divine condemnation to condemn the church. The sets in Dreyer's films are powerful and...

Extended Reading
  • Donato 2022-04-06 08:01:02

    Birth of tragedy

    There are many literary and cinematic works about the tragic fate of medieval witches. Precisely the Middle Ages was also the most prosperous period of Christianity, and the power of the church could almost decide everything. It is this kind of arbitrary spirit and power rule that allows the people...

  • Elda 2022-04-06 08:01:02

    [Film Review] Day of Wrath (1943) 7.5/10

    A 17th century drama about the antediluvian act of witchery persecution and the excruciating human benightedness inflicted by religious indoctrination, Carl Theodor Dreyer's DAY OF WRATH is a sublimely slow-paced threnody that sets to shock and awe.

    Prior to Ingmar Bergman's soul-searching felicity...

Day of Wrath quotes

  • Anne Pedersdotter: Absalon, hold me. Hold me and make me happy.

  • Rev. Absalon Pederssøn: I must look into myself. I have much to speak to God about.