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, you may be able to ask Picasso or Dali or Freud.
After the end of World War I in November 1919, the famous Germans, as the defeated party, fell into deep panic, brutality, and confusion. And so on, art genres grew savagely, and even the Nazis were founded in 1919.
A war that killed more than 10 million people, how much human emotions can be mobilized, self-reflection, exploration of the inner world, and analysis of the preconscious and subconscious, led to the emergence of a large number of thinkers and artists in that era. Human beings are like this, there are evil and kindness , in the face of difficulties, never give up hope and dreams, the more oppressed, the more crazy, the more crazy the greater, the enigmatic human mind.
Back to the film, the expressionism characteristics of the film: 1. The pursuit of strong contrast in modeling and the pursuit of the beauty of distortion and deformation; 2. The expressiveness related to the character image extends to every aspect of the scene scheduling. The set, action, and lighting are perfectly integrated. A fixed frame is an expressionist painting; 3. The performance is as stylized as the scene, exaggerated to the point of exaggeration; 4. It mainly conveys people's subjective consciousness. The film starts with the protagonist's oral memory, and 90% of the length is described. It is the memory of the male protagonist, that is, the subjective world of the male protagonist; the
movie finally defines the whole story as the fantasy of a mental patient, which is finally considered to be the doctor in Caligari who said, I have found a way to cure him, which is in line with the time. people's understanding of psychology.
I’ve watched a lot of movies in the 1920s and 1930s, and I am amazed again and again. It would be great if I could travel back to that era like the Doctor in Doctor Who, visit Picasso’s studio, and visit Chaplin’s studio. , participated in the art production of Caligari, it was a wonderful time.
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