Pioneering lighting techniques, such as a sudden increase in brightness, express protagonist emotions, and make lighting a film element; slanted windows, slanted patterns projected on the walls, and long absurd chair backs (like dali's paintings) are all in Create an incoherent, distorted, twisted, out of balance feeling, maybe the surreal painter deserves more credit than the director; pinhole using: emphasis while hiding something from the audience, suspicious; still problems: screen is flat, difficult to associate it with "happening", viewers will immediately realize that this is a movie when the subtitle of "be caligari" floats out, and the eccentric setting that was built up before is seen through
Thinking about "madness": We put so-called "madmen" in madhouses. Compared with the era when there was no concept of madhouses, is it a step forward or a step backward. Here is a quote from Foucault's Madness and Civilization: "Rationality" as an absolute standard draws a clear line between the normal and the mad, the mad becomes the symbol of the irrational, and the irrational becomes the synonym of the mad" "Insanity is also an alien form in human society. How to define madness is determined by those who have power. They hold the right to speak to various judgment standards in human society." Asylum, if the application of this concept in "rational" human cognition is to treat patients, then first of all, it must be assumed that the patients are all normal people, that is, people who are equal to us Once this premise is tacitly accepted, the concept of "isolation" should be vigilant and questioned. Whether we are helping the sick, or whether the "rational" group is in the majority and, for the sake of the public's interests and peace of mind, a small number of What about our different normal people being isolated?
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