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The world is impermanent
Don 2022-03-25 09:01:19
"The Lowliest Man" (1924), a very special film, the director intended to have a tragic ending, but with the intervention of the production company, he forcibly added a benign ending in the last 15 minutes. If the two endings are viewed separately, the story will The overall tone is very different. "Today you are a minister who is respected by everyone, a general, even a prince, but do you know what you will become tomorrow?" The male protagonist was originally a bellboy at the Atlantis Hotel. A job that he and his family are proud of, but the hotel manager assigns him to the bathroom as a low-status waiter on the grounds that he is too old. The one who can give him care is a hotel patrolman. It seems that the male protagonist will spend the rest of his life in humility. (The following ending was forcibly added by the production company, not the director's intention) ----In desperation, a wealthy wealthy inheritance came to the male protagonist, and those who ridiculed and excluded him in the past now serve him in turn , the male protagonist and the patrolman also lived a happy life with dignity. Although it is a German film, it has a strong French Impressionist style and is one of the masterpieces of director F.W. Murnau.
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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.
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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.
