The silent film of 1920 is about 75 minutes long. The plot is simple but not boring. It is easy for people to follow the development of the plot. I have only seen one or two of these ancient movies, so this movie is a little fresh to enjoy. I feel that the simple setting and fixed camera position can also create a lively feeling of a small town gathering, I think it is really amazing . The plot of the whole movie is very ordinary before the end, but the reversal of the last scene is really amazing, it immediately reminds me of Leonard's "Shutter Island". , In fact, similar routines are not surprising. If this is a modern drama, you can probably guess the plot reversal from the beginning, but because it is a silent movie, because it is a movie from a hundred years ago, it is a bit contemptuous. After watching it, I found that I can see many typical elements of a thriller and suspense film from this film. No wonder it is the first in the history of thriller films! I think it's worth mentioning a few points. The first is that the actor in the first scene is introducing his fiancée to a man. It is obvious that this "fiancee" is sloppy, which is a bit strange. With the plot, there has been speculation about what plot factors caused this "fiancee". This "fiancee" is also the heroine of the play. The second point is that Dr. Caligari's performance is too simple, how can it convince all the audience? Third, in the plot, the hero and his friend like the heroine at the same time. It can be seen from the fact that the heroine prefers the hero's friend, which echoes the prediction of Caesar the Sleepwalker. The hero's friend was murdered on the same night. The fourth point, the sleepwalker Caesar was going to kill the heroine, but was captivated by the heroine's beauty and kidnapped. The fifth point is that when the male protagonist cracks Dr. Caligari's secret, the method is too scribbled and full of holes. Then if the plot ends and reverses, the above plot can be reasonably explained. The male protagonist is actually a delusional patient. Analyzing his deep psychological motives, he must solve his rival in love. Then he uses the sleepwalker Caesar to kill his rival in fantasy, and the desire for the female protagonist is replaced by Caesar who kidnapped the girl. main plot. In fantasy, the male protagonist becomes the knight who protects the female protagonist. The ending is an open ending. I am more inclined to understand that the male protagonist fantasized about the bizarre events he experienced as a normal person as a paranoid patient. From the final dialogue between the male and female protagonists, I found that the female protagonist is also a mental patient. It may also be because of the editing technique of flashbacks, the mental hospital performed a play with him in order to treat the male protagonist's paranoia, so that the male protagonist realized that he was a patient in a mental hospital. However, living in the self's imagination as an independent individual is to him the whole world, and sobriety and What is the difference between imagination? In the past, I only worshipped Hitchcock as the father of thriller movies (Hitchcock first entered the film industry in 1920), but I don’t know that this movie can be said to be the enlightenment of thriller movies, and how many forgotten pearls of the times are there? After watching this movie, the excitement I rarely had in my heart came back. It was the joy I had only at the beginning of watching a thriller for the first time! My love for movies is back!
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