Häxan

By Darrion 2022-12-17 01:42:48

A movie like a essay

The story of the movie part 10

May 10, 2018

Witch

Häxan (1922)

Benjamin Christensen

The history of film is a flowing history. It is constantly changing. It is not the soil that is washed to the shore by the ocean tide and dried and solidified. On the contrary, it outputs a steady stream of power, which is the surging waves themselves.

Just like in 15...

By Carmella 2022-12-01 01:49:29

Video essay

This is a "mixed movie", you can call it a documentary, a feature film, a horror film, or even a "video essay". Anyway, it can catch up with the above.
  Judging from its era, the special effects scenes in the film are quite shocking. (For example, a scene where "witches" and "devils" "revel" in the forest).
  However, what is interesting is that just because the "world of the devil and witch" is so "realistic", the film itself, which wants to promote "atheism", seems a bit...

By Ruth 2022-11-27 05:48:57

color

Red world

Blue hell

Scary is not the devil

Terrible is ignorance

It's the human heart

There is no hell

Hell is on earth

If I don’t want to write, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have to write

I don’t want to write anymore, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have...

By Salma 2022-11-14 12:38:33

Wonderful and rich silent film

Quite a wonderful and rich silent film. The whole film is composed of 7 chapters. It is very detailed and uses various methods to tell the origin of the witch or the location of the folks or the different weird phenomena that emerged afterwards. It also includes the barbarism of ignorance. Prejudice and social and religious criticism at the time, many directors’ ideas have been put into it, so it is difficult to become a qualified documentary, but the whole film is full of weird evils, dark...

By Garett 2022-08-16 20:44:03

Transfer from NGA Introduction

One of the most fascinating works in the history of cinema is Christensen's visually stunning study of witchcraft, a blend of fictionalized vignettes and nonfiction texts exploring medieval sorcery practice. Frequently evoking paintings by Bosch, Häxan conveys a sense of dark emotion let loose on a naive world. Accompanied by a live performance of the original 1922 musical score under the direction of Gillian B. Anderson. (Benjamin Christensen, 1922, 35 mm, Danish and Swedish with soft-titles,...

By Anthony 2023-09-15 10:37:39

The avant-garde values ​​are more amazing than the avant-garde special effects scenes. The opening documentary method popularized the historical origin of the mysterious phenomenon of witches to the audience, and then the feature film method told the story of a small town trial of witches, and finally The director only explained his point of view. The disabled and the mentally ill often fall victim to the narrow cognition of human beings. Lack of tolerance is the root of the witch...

By Vergie 2023-09-14 11:36:04

Religious science film, medieval Europe was so keen on surreal ideas, and the cruel methods were enough to rank among the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty. I don’t know how much Dreyer’s Day of Revenge borrowed from this film. In music creation, the first is experimental, playful and lively, while the latter borrows a lot from classical...

By Caitlyn 2023-09-13 04:30:07

The persecution of so-called witchcraft in the Middle World is a half-fiction, half-documentary. Some of the torture was...

By Melissa 2023-09-11 17:06:13

Jia Zhangke should watch this film before making Twenty-Four...

By Maiya 2023-09-07 05:54:37

Fear stems from ignorance. The persecution of so-called witches in the Middle Ages was precisely due to people's ignorance of the natural world. On the other hand, the absolute dominance of Christianity and its doctrine of worship of one god became an important reason for the persecution of pagans. In the film, we can also see Foucault's discipline and punishment. Power is always closely combined with punishment methods and penetrates into all aspects of social life and internalizes them as...