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The scene I chose is when the police are scattered all over the the city. At first it was good because it gave the people of the city hope that the police are out trying to find the killer. The police was everywhere as if they were bacteria. However, it got to a point that they police was just everywhere and terrorizing everyone for no reason and still they was unable to find the killer; and from that point that's when they criminals took it upon themselves to use different tactics to catch the killer.
This scene made me realize that at times  you got to becareful of the things you do in life or the decisions one makes, because it may seems at that moment and time to be good, but after awhile it affect everyone around us who we care for.

1. Tactics that were use to captive the killer were very good techniques, and good planning. In Dr. Caligari the police weren't intelligent as they suppose to be.

2. I don't think the killer deserve to die; it's better for them to punish him. Killing someone who already killed another person will not bring any justification because the person is already dead. However, I believe if you do the time you should do the time, and put the killer in a psychiatric ward.

3. The criminal ability to organize themselves to captive Beckert, was very strategic and well planned out, without creating any excitement, and without the police involved. I like how they spread out the beggars as a part of their plan to catch the killer.

4. I would judge the depiction of Nazis as  very strategic criminals, but they did what was right by punishing Beckert. The criminals were very crafty in their doings, but at the end they had acknowledged the law to punish the killer.

5. The significance of the media in this film is to inform the public of what's going on in inside in the hidden word, so they can be aware of whats going on. This reminds me of Upton Sinclair on his novel " The Jungle" when he expose  the unsanitary conditions in the meat- packing industry and let the public know whats going on.

Blue Angel

The scene I chose from the movie when the professor was scolding the student in his office. When the two young guys stooped at the classroom doors, waited till everyone was exiting the class and then trip the young boy and he fell and all the pictures fell out of him books. I found this scene very interesting; it kind of foretold the events to come in the movie. From my perspective, I wish that the professor, had someone in his life to keep him on track when he was slipping; just like when his student fell he assisted him and took him in his office to get information as he speak with him.

In life it’s very good when we can have someone in our life to help along our journey, it may not be our immediate family, but I can be a stranger just to say your better than that, or you can do it. Despite how intellectual professor maybe if he had that one individual he would have made a better decision.

   1. I would compare Rath and Lola similar to Siddhartha and Kamala in the sense of the negative effect that both women had on the men. When Rath got with Lola he changes from a decent professor to a clown; Siddhartha got with Kamala he also suddenly change and began to take up bad habits such as drinking and gambling. Both men in a way lost their state of identity after meeting these women and started doing foolish things.

2. I would say that Lola is totally impassive; she doesn’t show no emotions whatsoever not even to the professor.

3. The significance of the clown is “change” he went from a decent professor to a clown, someone who lost his spirit.

4. Chaos is thematically represented in the film as professor life and the different changes he has gone through, from someone to no one. It seems as if he would commit murder after he saw his dearly beloved in another man arms, that later cause him to want to end his life.

5. The overall meaning I get from this film deception, lust, lost of identity etc. The professor saw something which was (Lola) that glitters like gold, but really it wasn’t gold it was something that appeared to be gold an illusion. He was captivated by the outward appearance of Lola which was beautiful, and didn’t realize he was going down the road of self- destruction; that she had another side of her, and all that she was presenting was just a façade.

6. I compared Rath to the Haussmann painting/montage because Rath it appears that someone not being able to share the pleasures in the world because of their intellectual lifestyle and he’s finally getting a taste of it he doesn’t know how to handle the pressure. And according to Prof. M he has total inner weakness and also incapable of enjoying and appreciating the pleasures of the world. I would say you could as well compare Siddhartha and the professor again. They both had a discipline and a more conservative lifestyle which shelters them from certain exposure, so when they are exposed to a different lifestyle they don’t know how to keep a balance, that they both had death in mind as a way of escape.

Expressionism

“Wake up Cesare, it’s I, your master Caligari”

This scene I found to be very interesting when Caligari was performing, it shows that he alone have the power and authority to tell his puppets when to wake up or sleep. This scene also shows submission that his puppets are so loyal that he waken up from his very sleep to do the work of his master.

I chose this scene because it was very interesting to me yet so powerful. This made me think about the world Trade Center when the  hi- jackers was ordered by one man who is very powerful to them in their eyes to kill all those innocent people, by flying the two planes in the towers. This shows how an individual can have so much power and can order people to do things for them without them the master having  to do no work.  This shows how people who are willing to give up their lives for their master who shows loyalty to death like Cesare.

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  11. The symbolism of Caligari’s power over Cesare was the German government who use propagranda to gain control over germany, just like how hitler control his army to do his work.

2.      2.  Profit motive affects cultural production in the modern age by reinforcing traditional authority assuming the audience receives the message in the intended way. It’s all about making money.

3.   I can evaluate Frankfurt school elitism regarding mass culture due to gaining more profits, and only just looking out for people who are in the same league which are themselves the ( elites).

       4.      Three aspects of the film that relate to the attribute of the culture industry?

A.       The film produces by profit motive.

B.       Film produced by monopolies by Delta- Bioscop Film Studio who merged.

C.       Producers based their decision to see the what types of profit was being made.

5.    5.    Kracauer interprets the film as tranny and chaos by looking at the carnival it shows freedom you and go and come as one pleases and the merry – go show chaos.

6.     6.   The increased pressure to develop the German film industry after the first world war, was because German economy was struggling so they have to “de-industrialize” large segments or its economy so they move into the film industry, which was bringing money at that time.

7.      7.  I would evaluate the claims that expressionism breed excessive because they expect you to somewhat run away from the external world and depict an external world as expressions of internal states.

8.     8.   The film foreshadow the Nazi regime, because Dr. Caligari  ordered Cesare to kill as if he was a soldiers just like Hitler who send out  command and his soldier carry out each command.

9.      9.  Praxisism is an infusion of theory and practice. Also it is a practical action guide by theory which at the same rescues theory from being obsolete and out of touch.