Assignment

Assignment

            The three themes that I would say are in both “The Blue Angel” and “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” are madness, darkness, creepiness. You can clearly see the madness in both films. In Dr. Carligari’s video the madness is the person in the cabinet and his relationship with Dr.Carligari. when the police come to look for the person in the cabinet Dr. Caligari tries to stop them so that is the madness in the first film. In the next film the madness is the fact that the professor goes stop his students from going the wrong path and ends up going to that irrational path himself.

            The darkness is also displayed in both film and for the first film I would say that the fact that you got a person that in the cabinet. You could also see the dankness on the face of the person who was in the cabinet. Another example is when the movie ended you saw the person in the prison and the doors were closed on him. The second movie prorates this theme because most of the movie takes place at night. You could also see the fact that in the day time the professor was rational and his irrational behavior were expressed in the dark.

            The third theme of creepiness is displayed in the film because of the person on the cabinet. It even gets creepier when the police come to find the suspect and they can’t seem to wake him up. In the second film the blue angel the creepiness is prorated in two character and those are the clown and the professor. The clown just popping in the film for no reason, and he does not say anything. So his behavior and the fact that he is a clown make his Creepy. The professor is creepy because I thought he was given the position of the clown. If you think about you don’t even see the clown, so I kind of felt that maybe the clown went something like what the professor was going through.

            Over all speaking I think this relates to the theme of nihilism in the blue angel because as the teacher mentioned that the behavior of professor Rath going after lust and end up killing himself. The theme of madness relate to nihilism by the fact that you are moving away from the traditional way of behavior and that is madness in the eyes of peoples norm. The theme of darkness relates to nihilism because you could say that if you are irrational you are going toward the dark.