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swhaze
Tim Burton before Tim BurtonSkilledLunatic
First, don't go down the comments due to a major spoiler. Now having that said, I have to agree with others who said this is not their favorites. It's however an easy 8/10. Contradictory I know, but this movie pioneering and really clever twist influenced so many filmmakers, also when watching this in pitch blackness and headphones several moments sent chills down my spine, only because of the music, the make up and the ambient...So good? Yes. Classic? Yes! However... I think most of us agree that this film has not aged very well.spacew0man
The set design was absolutely fantastic! It was worth watching purely for that reason, though I loved the story as well!the3rdman
Twisted, but also hilarious. It obviously was much more disturbing in 1920 than it is now. On the other hand, the film is more innovative and bombastic visually than pretty much anything contemporary cinema has to offer. A superb match of form and content.Big A2
@Oneironaut: The shorter one is actually the exact same movie, just projected at a different frame-rate.And while it's great, no doubt, I do agree that it's influence and importance outweights it's acutal quality. But hey, it also has what may be cinema's first twist ending!
Siskoid
Got the chance to see The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in a theater space, with a live 8-piece orchestra, and it's a nice experience, if a potentially distracting one. When the film got slow - and Caligari is OFTEN slow, especially for such a short film - you tended to watch the musicians instead. But yeah, Caligari, an undisputed German expressionist classic, is an obvious inspiration on latter-day cinema. In a modern context, Tim Burton stole his entire aesthetic from this one film. It may also be the first puzzle movie, with twist reveals inviting reinterpretation on subsequent viewings. In fact, a lot of the stuff I initially felt were problems - the over-extreme picture book sets (though I like them, especially how practical shadow and light are painted on the sets, it made me wonder if they were covering some kind of budget or logistical problems), the flashback and further flashback structure, the redundancy of the other Caligari - were actually part of the game. This dark, demented tale of killer somnambulists starts off slow, yes, but once it gets going, it gets more assured in terms of rhythm, effects, and story. So yeah, it deserves its place among the classics of its era.essaywhu
In my opinion, this is one of the first masterpieces of Horror cinema with a great twist ending that explains the strange and unusual set design. It is a beautiful film and while it probably isn't as scary as it once was, I can imagine the audiences of the time being amazed at what they were seeing while film was still in its infancy. This film probably influenced so many other films. I see traces of it in Hitchcock's career (The killer in The Lodger looks a little like Cesare, the somnambulist) as well as influencing a lot of other silent cinema that would soon come out in Germany, like Murnau's Nosferatu.Oneironaut
Didn't think that I'd enjoy this one. Granted, it did take me until about half way through it (the 71 minute version, didn't want to watch the shorter one) to start getting into it.So bizarre and surreal. I would recommend this to any horror enthusiast, and a lot of people hold it in (maybe too) high regards. It is good, just not... amazing or anything. Mainly, it opened the way for many to come and in that sense it is great.
Dieguito
Masterpiece! A theater play in film! Amazing scenarios, really expressive... Good explanation @krakenzmama, with a little spoiler alert hehehesaydin7
beyond its age.excellent movie.V012
An influential impressive thrillingly cinematic and horrifying experience.dirtintheground
Amazing!Wise Jake
This movie is incredible. The sets and plot elements are all so bizarre and otherworldly - a movie that works in twists and intense chills without ever showing you anything explicitly scary.mcmakattack
Dripping with style, the sets and theatrics never get old. An amazing example of artists leaning into their limitations, creating something great because of and in conjunction with what they aren't able to do. The story's themes and the film's aesthetic blend perfectly well together. The ending still made giddy in a spooked sort of way.Andrewski
The Expressionism was very real! But the story and characters were quite opaque and even for a pretty short movie this dragged on in the last act. Novel ending and certainly some scenes were memorable but I was expecting more.(It’s possible I’d feel stronger about a restored copy. What I watched was probably one of the worst quality I’ve seen of anything in the era.)
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