Day of Wrath Comments

  • Sam 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    This kind of woman really deserves what she deserves, this mother-in-law is cruel enough, her son's love is just childish, and her father is really unlucky, so marrying a second wife is young, and she can't be the same age as her son. ....

  • Mae 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    Such cruel shots and cruel narratives torture the audience over and over again. What is scary is not religion, but the human nature of all beings being trampled on in the name of religion. I have to admit, we could all be like that. Harm and redemption, victimization and liberation, are...

  • Josefa 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    A film about religion and witchcraft, which can be seen as Dreyer's transformation from silent art to sound (vampires are silent). The characters' souls and the trial and burning scenes under the close-up shots are similar to those in "The Judgment of Joan of Arc", the light and shadow change, and the subject matter is mysterious like "Vampire". Dreyer's audiovisual language is rigorous, solemn and very beautiful. Truffaut called the nudity of the old witch's trial the most beautiful female...

  • Anita 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    Dreyer was not concerned with the morality of witch persecution in Days of Vengeance, which was Arthur Miller's specialty. On the contrary, he suddenly reversed the theme, and the movie became a story of a witch growing up. In such a society, the awakening of human desire means witchcraft and equals evil. Witches are those who are called witches by society: it is society who first frame some people as candidates for demonic agency, and they become witches. The film pushes this inhuman logic to...

  • Providenci 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    On the day of condemnation, sin is like a rooted vine, stretching along the bare shelves, its dense accumulation is enough to drown all desires related to happiness, Martin falls in love with a new mother, under religious taboos, the originally happy The grass boat, because of the frightened death, returned to the witch's tyrannical determination, love was easily betrayed, and the evil demon dominated the...

  • Angel 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    9/10 Dreyer's film language is very flavorful, but this psychological drama with religious elements always reminds people of the great...

  • Burley 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    Beautiful light and shadow capture. The words and deeds of the clergy are utterly absurd. A balanced cut of irony that amplifies how human nature is blinded by selfish desires. Seeing flustered, because of those human nature. I still haven't figured out why there are so many lengths of unethical love, and on the contrary, there is less burnout, and how can the two be connected? The cross becomes the gallows = murder in the name of religion? Or should everyone face judgment and punishment before...

  • Darien 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    Dreyer's religious story is really too friendly to me, the high-contrast picture and moving long shots, transitioning from silent to sound, and the close-up of Anne forced to cry at the end is like "Joan of Arc", the characters under his lens It really has a sculptural beauty. "Did you kill him with your own power?", the fate of this reincarnation is a horror...

  • Irma 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    I have never seen such a beautiful black and white film, the lighting and camera movement are perfect on perfection. Unlike "Joan of Arc", the two main female characters in the film are not so noble and pure, Anne is in love with her husband and ex-wife's son, and the grandmother is too controlling because she loves her son too much. But who can blame them? The hypocritical villains in the name of religion are not the two of...

  • Fidel 2022-04-20 09:02:55

    Part 125 of the CC Collection, produced in Denmark in 1943. While not the dark ages of Europe, it was horrific enough. Ignorance of religious beliefs, suffocating love stories, and yet another ruthless trial. Saying what you are is what you are, all defenses are meaningless, the biggest sin is only because you fall in love with a person....

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.

Day of Wrath

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Language: Danish Release date: April 24, 1948

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