The reason why this film can become a classic is because many aspects are worth learning from. I think that in 1920, the peep lens can be used and combined with the plot, which is very shocking to me. This film is used in the middle to the second half. Many peep shots (some can also be said to be close-ups of the faces of the characters), in 36m15s, a bystander peeped at the doctor's face, emphasizing the doctor's anxiety about investigating with people at that time, and it was already implied at that time that the murderer was Caesar , the peeping on Francis' face at 39m34s not only deepens the suspense of the film's plot, but also hints at the character of Francis, deepening the suspense of the character, 44m02s (47m24s) from Francis's perspective to Dr. Caligari and Caesar (doll) peeps, the subjective perspective strengthens the atmosphere of the film, and at the same time, the scene of Caesar's assassination of the heroine that unfolds on the other side is also compared, followed by a peeping shot of 44m37s, peeping at Caesar's activities, the first It is to set off the tense atmosphere at the time, and to compare it with the previous peeping shot, to highlight that although both sides are peeping at the same time, but one side is calm, while the other side hides the murderous intention, using this contrast to imply the reversal in the later stage of the film, 47m is a classic shot of the film, this The lens not only highlights the expressionist deformed composition, but also uses a peeping perspective to interpret the strange atmosphere at that time to the extreme. In 52m52s, the doctor's face is close-up again, this time also to highlight the doctor who is about to be exposed. Panic, the next peep comes to 57m40s is a shot of Francis and the doctor investigating the doctor. This shot is from the perspective of a bystander, maybe the doctor's point of view or Caesar's point of view. The purpose of this shot is to let the audience understand. Francis and the doctor's behavior to think about whether they are peeping at the doctor's information, or the doctor is watching their actions, and the next peeping shot from 59m07s to 59m24s for seventeen seconds, will four investigations. The faces of the narrators are all close-up. Compared with the previous one, this shot adds to the suspenseful color of the film. The four of them are reading a book about Caesar, and the four of them are being observed by someone in the dark night, and they are also showing The insignificance of the four of them shows the ignorance of the four of them.The use of a large number of peep shots may have been forced by technology at the time, but I think it was the conditions at the time that provided us with such material, allowing us to analyze the role of peep shots in the film's plot and characters. The peeping shot also highlights the exaggerated artistic features of expressionism at that time. It can be said that the plot of this film is to compare the mental instability of people in the post-war society at that time with insanity. Francis was finally admitted to the ward because of schizophrenia. What about people who are schizophrenic because of the disintegration of war families?
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