Kinugasa Teinosuke's avant-garde behavior

In 1926, he produced the avant-garde movie "A Page of Madness". Although it is a silent movie, there are no explanation subtitles or conversation subtitles, and the past and present intersect in the video, and reality and dreams intersect. In addition to that, the subjective image of a madman is added, and the chaotic inner world where animation and madness are combined is developed purely with images.
The 1919 German movie "Dr. Caligari" visualizes the inner world of the madness with a distorted set, and the 23rd French movie "The Wheel of Madness" sings the passion of human beings with a flashback for another 25 years. The Soviet movie "Battleship Potemkin" created a visual world like a big symphony of attractive images, but as if the avant-garde flow of movies in the world at that time was gathered here, "Crazy. In "One Page", the inner world of madness is unfolded like a symphony of images by a wonderful flashback.
The 1920s was a period of rapid global pursuit of the possibilities of cinematic expression, on the one hand the pursuit of naturalistic realism, but on the other hand the leap of images and surprises. It became a quest for how far human senses could be expanded by piercing editing. Symbolic effects of the strange contrast of light and shadow in German expression films, montages of Soviet Eisenstein attractions, and a little later, story denial by emphasizing the poetic imagination of the French avant-garde film movement. All those elements are moving in this "A Page of Madness".

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