Day of Wrath

By 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 in psychoanalyzing our mentation on the existential basis, on that same Scandinavian land, Dreyer's moreclinical and religion-inflected study has already plunged its scalpel into the...

By 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 to persecute others in the name of justice with peace of mind, which is similar to a certain period of time in a certain dynasty.

In the film, the old lady who kindly helped people to heal...

By Jedidiah 2022-04-06 08:01:02

The wheel of fortune does not stop

It is too far-fetched to have a relationship with the "Passionate Age" mentioned in the introduction. If you insist that the two films are similar, then the similarity is not that witches harm people, but that both films are about religion harming people.
"Days of Wrath" is clearly divided into two factions. The social mainstream and ruling party represented by priests, priests' mothers, and villagers in the Middle Ages are old-fashioned, ruthless, cruel and superstitious. The reason why...

By Davonte 2022-04-06 08:01:02

Commentary on "On Human Nature" - "The Day of Vengeance"

The film raises five questions:

1. What is a causal link?
2. Why do we have to think that simultaneous relations must be accompanied by other objective relations?
3. Is it possible to identify any causal or objective link?
4. What is guilt?
5. Is retribution a system established voluntarily by both parties that resembles an objective connection?


After thinking about the five questions, it can be seen that the dilemma of witch identification in the...

By Danielle 2023-09-27 21:58:24

The minimalism of the scene and narrative does not diminish the conventional effect it should have achieved; the precise design of light and shadow replaces the actor's expression, which may be the earliest attempt to treat the actor as a mere (moving or still) shape; I like funerals the most In the passage, the positional relationship presented by the traverse is used to expose the truth about the justice of the characters' actions. It must be said that Dreyer knows how to make good use of...

By Robbie 2023-09-18 09:35:03

Dreyer loves to judge...

By Jaydon 2023-08-02 18:48:00

Dreyer's film is even narrated by shadows. The contrast between light and shadow in this film is more remnant of German expressionism. The plot is more complicated and ambiguous than Joan of Arc and Promise, and each character cannot be evaluated in one...

By Kiley 2023-06-18 14:27:37

Faith to God; secular to human nature; retribution of attribution; light and shadow, to...

By Branson 2023-06-16 10:30:48

Start with revenge and end with revenge. The possessiveness of an old mother. In order to protect himself, the son quickly turned his face away from his stepmother Annie. The pastor liked that his wife, Anne, was a holy object and could not give her the joy of being a human being. When the old witch's "curse" on the priest's colleagues was fulfilled, the priest finally felt guilty and frightened that he used his power to let Anne's mother let go of Anne's mother. light and...