Like many early silent films, this movie is very complicated. Of course, the main line of the story is how the feelings of a loving young couple who grew up in the countryside can overcome all kinds of weird temptations in the city, and finally still live happily together. s story. It can be seen that the contradiction and integration of urbanization and simple rural folk customs are the main areas that the film wants to explore. Murnau is more on the side of the country (the male protagonist is seduced by a "woman in the city", the male and female protagonist "was as happy as a child") as a German expressionist film artist, in this film , We can see the influence of the German romantic painting style on him. Many of the beautiful shots in the film belong to this style. The storm in the movie that symbolizes the ups and downs of the hero and heroine's love life, can be said to be "the master of the image of the German romantic painting style", it is really the greatest storm in the history of film! The film also has a certain mysticism and religious redemption. (The dog that inexplicably discovered that the husband had the intention of killing his wife, the two church bells that sounded at the right time when the husband was about to kill his wife, and the husband's repentance, and the wedding that was being held in the church that made the husband completely repentant. {Similarly Appearing in time.})
There are many unforgettable scenes in the movie, the husband and wife kissing in the middle of the city road, the husband and wife happily dancing the simple country dance in the city ballroom, and the husband tearing it apart in the storm. The heart and lungs called for the wives who fell into the water, and the husband finally lay comfortably in the arms of the wife who was rescued ashore...
"The simplest feelings touched us the most." "Sunrise" describes such a feeling, so I was caught by it once. Moved again...
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