PHL 710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Upton Sinclair, Mind Control, Product Differentiation
1 Aug 2013
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Scenes comparison of mental and real: the court yard is symmetrical. It shows that is the only thing that is real in the movie: the scene where caligari is dragged. The kind yes of things a crazy person would see. When francis is being dragged, there are no longer psychedelic designs, showing that is the actual room. Creators of dr. caligari: meger and janowitz were both soldiers in the austrian army. Janowitz while serving his country, had a nervous breakdown, and had an ambiguous relationship with his psychiatrist. But janowitz wasn"t sure the psychiatrist was doing any good, because he believed they are going to make him better and send him back to war which he didn"t not want to go back to war. It is a bad idea to put yourself in a position to be killed: there are carrying doctors who heal the soldiers well enough to go back to war.
