"Comedy" of a good old man

Annette 2022-01-18 08:01:15

So profound or ironic. The contradiction seems to be a box, and when he strips off his uniform, he takes away all the social values ​​and dignity that the workers desire, but the culprit is the so-called upper class society. The grace, humility, and noble virtues they disguised were all because they stood on the bones of the working people. Their gorgeous wine glasses are filled with blood.

That group of people exploited the fruits of the working people, but abandoned them when they were unable to work. In the movie, the final transfer of the protagonist to be a cleaner is considered conscientious by their boss. The most ironic thing is that the people at the time yearned and envied the lives of the exploiters, believing that they served and "giving" him a "gorgeous dress", but after they knew the protagonist's fate, they ridiculed him. . But no one rose up to resist. The most hated snakes and beasts and selfish people.

After all, the ending is a "beautiful reversal" that cannot appear in reality. Brother Night Watchman, the next "former protagonist" in the toilet, the man in the Phnom Penh uniform carrying luggage is not the Jean Valjean in the real world.

2020.3.29

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  • Maureen 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Murnau is the true master of the silent film era. The film is completely narrated with black and white images. The style of the indoor drama is at its peak, and the humbleness of life is better than death is vividly displayed.

  • Lottie 2022-03-21 09:03:00

    This film tells the same story as "Sunrise", affirming its historical status in the German 1920s indoor drama film and its superb use of light and shadow, but the storyline is too weak, and the look and feel is far from Fritz Lang's " Magical movies such as Nosferatu, Nibelung, and Dr. Mabus the Player. In the silent film era, I thought that the silent comedies of Chaplin and others in the United States and the native German national stories were much better than this film.