Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Adrien 2022-04-19 09:02:11

Even looking at this masterpiece of expressionism nearly 100 years later, one would still sigh that the movie could be made like this.
Maybe people at that time would not be as shocked as I am today. After all, it was an era when avant-garde art was in power. If you ask for directions on the road,...

Madilyn 2022-01-03 08:01:11

The most popular among the movie genres, the most popular is the thriller. When talking about thriller movies, we naturally think of the works of Hitchcock, Kubrick and other masters. But to truly trace the origin of the thriller, I'm afraid we have to go back to this masterpiece of German...

Ilene 2022-01-03 08:01:11

oblique angle, set/costume, composition, acting style, cinema could represent mental states with the disturbing force of contemporay painting and theater. Enter), mask (some are diamond-shaped), flat cut, shadow (less, but useful for murder).

Maribel 2022-03-26 09:01:07

9.5/10. A mental patient told a story of fantasizing the dean as a "mentally ill" and himself as a "hero who exposes sin and brings beauty back". The film was the pioneering work of German Expressionism and is widely regarded as the first true horror film. The audio-visual design of the film is extremely stylized and original from beginning to end, with slanted and deformed sets and subtitle cards (all kinds of weird lines), twisted and weird perspectives and lighting (such as all kinds of lighting from bottom to top) , exaggerated and bizarre makeup and performances, murders shown by shadows on the wall, near-camera-free movement (replaced with mask-style fading, direct switching of scenes or scenes, etc.), different colors but all revealing eerie film, etc. Wait. Be sure to pick the fault, that is, it was born too early, resulting in some inevitable limitations in audio-visual language (Note: limitations ≠ old-fashioned feeling)