…the presence of death and destruction, the atmosphere of angst in the Nazi era, the conditions of survival after the war were clearly deplored. Or is it not useful to keep in mind the “Film ohne Titel” with its play on genre and satirical view of the post-war situation? //Cf. Hester Baer, When Fantasy Meets Reality. Authorship and Stardom in Rudolf Jugert’s “Film without a Title” (1948), in: Baer, Dismantling (see note 17), pp. 49–72
信息量太大以至于到最后都忘了这是不科幻片了。居然还出现了Madame butterfly!
奇爱博士之前
能察觉到导演其实对人类还抱有信心才做这番针砭时弊,不然幽默讥讽可以更暗黑一点
导演仍旧追求表现主义的图像语言,以2048年为时间节点追溯一百年前的德国战后史。以奥托这一平民的经历为切入口,故作认真地反映了普通德国人的困苦以及他们对社会变迁的认识,其间不乏夸张的幽默讽刺,是一部以哀伤却又乐观的手法点评了柏林当时的精神与政治氛围的创意之作。