thinking about reality

Carson 2022-04-20 09:01:47

A masterpiece of German Expressionism. German Expressionism is a part of the German avant-garde movement. Like the European avant-garde, it was born after the First World War and during the Weimar regime in Germany in the 1920s. After the First World War, the defeated Germany generally had a shadow of defeat and depression, which was initially reflected in expressionist painting. Expressionist films borrowed a lot from Expressionist paintings and plays.
It is rare for this film to have the style of the film determined by the artist (the other is Gone with the Wind), and the screenwriter has created a parallel, twisting story, and the role of the screenwriter is highlighted for the first time in a film. In the town's first homicide, an officer was killed. Given that the Doctor was previously referred to as a film by the officials, it is reasonable to believe that the Doctor instructed Caesar to kill the official who had previously called him a "liar".
The ending is also very good. One detail is that Francis's story is exactly the same as the actual mental hospital, and the characters are exactly the same. This raises the question, who is the patient? Who is the murderer? Such a design confuses the boundaries between reality and fantasy, truth and falsehood, and rationality and irrationality cannot be distinguished~~ This is a kind of thinking about the real world.

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  • Bryana 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    【How can you miss the centenary! ] The representative of German expressionism, the classic of black horror films. The last scene is very similar to "Shutter Island". It was originally directed by Frieze Lang, but after reading the script, he felt that it could not be made into an expressionist style, and then handed it over to the newcomer Robert Venet. PS: The environments in this movie are completely different from the real ones. The characters’ living bedrooms, city halls, etc. are full of sloping, two-dimensional right-angled roofs, deformed windows, narrow doors, Very abstract light and so on.

  • Vinnie 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    The live soundtrack couldn't appreciate the shadowing of the murder scene when the emotion came out = = brilliant storytelling haunting visual style ubiquitous corners and slanted lines created a deep and eerie perspective in addition to the symbols of centralization Which thriller and suspense does not have its shadow?

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari quotes

  • Dr. Caligari: Cesare, can you hear me? Cesare, I am calling you. I, Dr. Caligari, your master. Awaken for a moment from your dark night.

  • Dr. Caligari: Ladies and gentlemen, Cesare the somnambulist will answer all your questions. Cesare knows every secret. Cesare knows the past and sees the future. Judge for yourselves. Don't hold back, ask away!