Conrad Veidt with a victim number one The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 color added 2016
by David Lee Guss
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Conrad Veidt with a victim number one The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 color added 2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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�The film presents themes on brutal and irrational authority; Dr. Caligari represents the German war government, and Cesare is symbolic of the common man conditioned, like soldiers, to kill. In his influential book From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer says the film reflects a subconscious need in German society for a tyrant, and it is an example of Germany's obedience to authority and unwillingness to rebel against deranged authority. He says the film is a premonition of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and says the addition of the frame story turns an otherwise "revolutionary" film into a "conformist" one. Other themes of the film include the destabilized contrast between insanity and sanity, the subjective perception of reality, and the duality of human nature.�
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November 5th, 2016
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