One of the more peculiar films I've viewed over the years. A Man by the name of dr. Caligari has this strange Frankenstein man living in a coffin. I call him a Frankenstein despite the fact that he wasn't really created or anything. He's just kind of there, I think he came about because of necromancy, though I'm not entirely sure.
I'd like to tell you about the actors who betrayed the character; 'What they've done before.' But I have no idea who any of these people are. I looked up the main actor 'Werner Krauss' and all I know about him is he kept acting into the 50s. Looks like he survived the era of the Nazis, so that's good.
He has to have one of the most scornful faces I've ever seen in cinema. You got to remember this is the 1920s when every actor in a film look like they'd be a serial killer, but here's our doctor Caligari acting like a right weirdo. And get this; ''he's the head of an Asain Asylum'' (there's this whole interesting pot that revolves around that alone.)
There's this other guy by the name of mr. Francis and he's been trying to investigate these mysterious murders that keep happening. Turns out it's the monster that mr. Caligari owns. he's been killing all kinds of people or at least so we think. Turns out mister Francis was actually insane the whole time. His friends never died, he's not an investigator and his wife's this crazy chick who thinks she's a queen. It's one of those gotcha endings.
I'd like to say the film has good pacing but I think I have a bias when it comes to old silent movies.
The monogamy of any scene gets broken up with the cue cards, you just sit there and end up reading. I do love the idea of silent films. It's mixing a book and stage acts together.
I would love to see this remade as a Tim Burton movie the whole film just reeks of something right up his alley and definitely he'd be able to do something creative with it. But unfortunately it's not 1990 anymore and modern Tim Burton is a burnt-out uninteresting man who just keeps rehashing the same old crap.
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