thinking about reality

Carson 2022-04-20 09:01:47

A masterpiece of German Expressionism. German Expressionism is a part of the German avant-garde movement. Like the European avant-garde, it was born after the First World War and during the Weimar regime in Germany in the 1920s. After the First World War, the defeated Germany generally had a shadow of defeat and depression, which was initially reflected in expressionist painting. Expressionist films borrowed a lot from Expressionist paintings and plays.
It is rare for this film to have the style of the film determined by the artist (the other is Gone with the Wind), and the screenwriter has created a parallel, twisting story, and the role of the screenwriter is highlighted for the first time in a film. In the town's first homicide, an officer was killed. Given that the Doctor was previously referred to as a film by the officials, it is reasonable to believe that the Doctor instructed Caesar to kill the official who had previously called him a "liar".
The ending is also very good. One detail is that Francis's story is exactly the same as the actual mental hospital, and the characters are exactly the same. This raises the question, who is the patient? Who is the murderer? Such a design confuses the boundaries between reality and fantasy, truth and falsehood, and rationality and irrationality cannot be distinguished~~ This is a kind of thinking about the real world.

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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.