I haven’t watched the movie, and the profile I found elsewhere is not necessarily accurate.

Laverna 2022-01-03 08:01:11

This is a terrifying story told by a young man, Mr. Francis. In a small town Hostenwall, there is a Dr. Caligari (Dr. Caligali), he can hypnotize a person and control their behavior. In order to show off his talents, he specially went to the city hall to apply for an exhibition about dream visitors. Although he was being left out in the cold, in the end he was approved and built a small house in the center of the town. This is also known as "Dr. Caligari's Hut." In the cabin, Shezar, a hypnotized patient, can answer people's questions under the command of Dr. Caligari under the name of Cesare. Francis and his friend Alan were very curious, so Alan asked the dream tourist how long he still had to live. Shezar said he won't survive tonight. This bizarre answer made Alan very frustrated, and Francis had been comforting Alan on the way home, which made him feel a little relieved. But the tragedy happened as planned, and Alan was murdered that night. This is the second consecutive murder case in the small town. Francis decided to find out what happened. He went to Dr. Caligari's cabin again, trying to find clues from the dream visitor, but found nothing. At this time, news came that the murderer had been arrested, but the suspect did not admit that he had murdered. In order to find his father, Dr. Olser, Francis's girlfriend went to the cabin to inquire about Dr. Caligari, but was frightened by the dreamer's weird expression and fled. On the night after Alan's funeral, Frankis dived outside the doctor's cabin alone to investigate. At the same time, the dream tourist sneaked into the house of Francis's girlfriend, preparing for another murder, but when he was about to drop the pointed dagger, he was moved by the beauty of Francis's girlfriend, so Put down the dagger that was raised high, and wanted to touch her little hand with her right hand. This action awakened Francis's girlfriend. She yelled for help. The dreamer couldn't help but kidnapped her and seized the window and fled. The shouting attracted many family members, they chased all the way, and finally rescued the fainted beautiful girl by the small bridge. The dream tourist who fled from wasteland eventually fell down due to lack of physical strength. Frankis returned to his girlfriend's house. When she said that the murderer was a dream visitor, Frankis didn't believe it at all. Because he said he has been watching outside the cabin, Cesareg I have been lying down and haven't come out. Frankis went to the police station to confirm if the arrested person had escaped. But when he saw the suspect with huge iron ropes on his feet, he believed that he did not do the murder. So he took the police to Dr. Caligari's cabin and said to check whether the dreamer was still asleep. But in the end only one model was seen lying there. Seeing that the incident was revealed, Dr. Carrigari fled to a mental hospital, where Francis followed him. When asked if there was a patient named Caligari, the answer was that Dr. Caligari was the dean here. Frankis came to Dr. Caligari's room, and what was waiting for him was Caligari's grim face and aggressive gaze. All this made Frankis at a loss. He escaped from the room, telling the other doctors about his experience in horror. So accompanied by the three doctors, they returned to Dr. Caligari's room again. They did not see Dr. Caligari this time. They found some books about sleepwalking and Dr. Caligari's diary in the room. It turned out that the dean was to verify the conclusion of the control of dream visitors' behavior in a book called "Dr. Caligari's Cabin". And in the course of this experiment, the dean also wanted to become the Dr. Caligari in the book like a demon. Under the control of this kind of paranoid desire, the dean is no longer himself, but the actual Dr. Caligari. After reading the dean's diary, Frankis and the three doctors were at a loss. At this time, someone reported that the dream tourist had been found in the wild. Francis and his entourage carried the Dream Visitor back to the hospital and confronted Dr. Carrigari. When Dr. Caligari found out that Cesare, which he could completely control, could no longer move, he was insane. After this horrible change, Francis’s girlfriend was so autistic that he never stepped out of the house, and Francis himself was finally admitted to a mental hospital due to mental stimulation. Cesare’s shadow has always been Enveloping him, he always said to the person next to him, "Look, that's Cesare, don't ask him any questions about the future...". At the end of the film, when Francis saw the Dean who looked like Calgary and chased him frantically, and was finally locked up in the isolation room, what was typed on the screen was an evocative sentence from the Dean. Words--"At last I understand his mania. He thinks I am that mystic Caligari--!

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  • Claudie 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    I actually didn't know if I didn't understand it or didn't bother to understand it at all. . All I know is that the whole class fell asleep in the small lecture hall. When the subtitles came out, the buddy next to me woke up.

  • Abdullah 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    A Kafkaesque nightmare. The labyrinth itself is nothing but a great trap, and trying to find the exit is nothing but a fearless struggle to sink deeper and deeper into it, for the sleepwalker of the night never tells us the meaning of death, and whenever he wakes up in our name , but repeating over and over the fate of death we already knew, and we were thrown into that eternal shame, because we never understood that the culprit was the puppet that never woke up.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari quotes

  • Francis: Mr. Director, unmask yourself.

  • Francis: Alan, we both love her... We'll leave the choice up to her. But whomever she chooses, we shall remain friends...