A Step Back To The Past

     Weirdly, I was excited to watch Dr. Caligari. No, I did not think it would be a super great movie, but I thought it would be so fascinating to see the strategies and techniques that a century old movie would use. They had so little to work with then, yet still could make movies that so many people loved to watch.

The thing that struck me most was how slow the movie's pace was. First of all, every scene took longer because they needed to add a separate text screen to show the audience what was being said, due to there being no live audio. With this, and just the movie going at a slower pace than I am used to, it felt like not much of a plot really happened for a movie that was over an hour long. Also, it was interesting to see the acting and special effects, both of which were admittedly low quality but were probably very strong for the time.

Overall, despite not believing the movie would be great, I had an enjoyable experience. Especially from an academic perspective of cinema, watching this movie was fascinating. I look forward to watching even more movies over the history of cinema to see the evolution in action and see how we got where we are today.

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