After watching the movie of acquaintance?️ A little academic divergence

Theron 2022-03-19 09:01:04

Hitler's favorite as Espressionismo Caligari, asymmetrical lines, strong contrasts of light and dark, blurred silhouettes and black human silhouettes in many scenes - especially in the laboratory of the mad inventor Or in the crypts where the workers gather, one by one alludes to the mysterious and threatening role of movements, events and emotions. As the builder of the future German metropolis, Rotwanger's old gray and black buildings with a slanted top due to asymmetrical lines give the impression of being slanted, and the towering and neatly arranged white buildings of the 21st century German metropolis The clash of shapes is another particularly striking example. The sci-fi form expresses the crisis of the future world as the lose-lose and end of the class struggle. Real Mary, Robot Mary, Rotwan, Fred, and Fredson are conceptual incarnations, Mary represents humanity, Robot Mary and Rotwan are the negative effects of science, Fred is the goodness of capitalism, Frey Desen is the evil of capitalism. The worker group is a common social group and scene. The peak is really unattainable.

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  • Maria: HEAD and HANDS need a mediator. THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART!

    Worker #1: But where is our mediator, Maria - ?

    Maria: Wait for him! He will surely come!

    Worker #2: We will wait, Maria...! But not much longer - - !

  • Maria: Today I will tell you the legend of THE TOWER OF BABEL... "Come, let us build us a tower whose top may reach unto the stars! And the top of the tower we will write the words: Great is the world and its Creator! And great is Man!" But the minds that had conceived the Tower of Babel could not build it. The task was too great. So they hired hands for wages. But the hands that built the Tower of Babel knew nothing of the dream of the brain that had conceived it. BABEL. BABEL. BABEL. BABEL. One man's hymns of praise became other men's curses. People spoke the same language, but could not understand each other...