The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Comments

  • Maybelle 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    A film made like "Dr. Caligari’s Cabin" can only be appreciated by film students... Even the Nazis called it "degenerate art", while Einstein called it "barbaric." Carnival, the destruction of human health art". The expression of fear and absurdity through gloomy color blocks, exaggerated lines, and deadly white faces insinuates the fatal damage and blow to the German people in World War...

  • Reginald 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    The pioneering work of German expressionist film and the masterpiece of avant-garde film. The subtitles are bizarre and cover a lot of footage. All the scenes are studio shot. Stylized lighting effects are drawn, and the plot is grotesque. It reflects the fear of authority and the pessimistic mood of being unable to control fate that prevailed in German society at that...

  • Donnell 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    The three artists are the...

  • Autumn 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    I watched DouPost today and found that someone actually scolded me for being ignorant because I couldn't read the easy-to-write reviews of this movie 11 years ago. Let’s take a note of Mark, let’s find it...

  • Wiley 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    1. Regarding expressionist scenery and character performance: If the decoration is conceived to have the same mental state as the thing that controls the character’s mind, the actor will find valuable help in structuring and activating his character in that decoration . He will integrate himself into the environment presented in front of him, and both will move in the same rhythm. 2. The reversal plot pursued by fans of suspense horror films has been played out of height as early as...

  • Mae 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    The pioneering work of German expressionism, the pioneer of horror film. All scenes are painted and set up by studio shooting. The film uses exaggerated and weird patterns and light and shadow, distorted perspective, angular and skewed house doors and windows, Gothic subtitles, forced close-ups of covered lenses, and films of different colors. The dark and terrible atmosphere is rendered, and the psychoanalytic psychology and emotions are externalized. ps: Krakauer said that the film is a...

  • Helmer 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    Archive 2014.11.15.8pm 4k restored live soundtrack. The screen is deformed in various ways to emphasize the elements of the screen, circled in the lower left corner and circled in the upper right. Imitate criminals, substitutes for props, reconstruct scenes through diaries, cases from history, and subvert the use of corsets twice. If you contact Hitler, you may be able to explain the plot as Caligari using the somnambulist to murder, and the awakened person has lost the possibility of normal in...

  • Jillian 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    Pleasant and shocking, distorted and crazy-"My experience with her is stranger than anything you have experienced in this life..."-"I should find a way to heal...

  • 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...

  • Celine 2022-01-03 08:01:11

    The style, atmosphere, sociality, irony, and horror are all excellent! I can’t believe there was such an amazing movie nearly 100 years...

Extended Reading

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari quotes

  • [last lines]

    Dr. Caligari: Now I also know how to cure him.

  • Dr. Caligari: Step rrrrright up! Presenting for the first time: Cesare the somnambulist! The miraculous Cesare. Twenty-three years old, he has slept for twenty-three years continuously, day and night! Right before your eyes, Cesare will awaken from his death-like trance.