Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumphs of Ufa, German film creators. It is a dramatic picturization of the knife couple, of one of those who sit at the knee of Herr Freud. Why does nice Mr. Hero want to slit his wife's throat? Follow the dream and find out. Many a Freudian symbol will probably elude the spectator while a scrupulously scientific fantasy of the less definitely conscious mind is revealed on the screen. But the tense climax, the amazing photography cannot escape notice or fail of effect. When the psychoanalyst explains to the patient the cause of his wanting to knife...
Rookies (Karl Dane, George K. Arthur). There is something inherently funny in sassing military discipline. When a little fellow (George Arthur) is the sasser, and a bulky one (Karl Dane) symbol of the sassed, there is the added Mutt & Jeff twist. All this is stuffed into the story of a rookie at a military training camp, making for a minimum of subtlety, a maximum of facial contortion, a modicum of hilarity...
Tillers of the Soil. A French film records the adventures of two youths in love with one girl. The grandfather, symbol of the stern paternalism that runs with and parallel to the landowner's devotion to his soil, forces the girl to marry the less favored. The frustrated beloved goes to Paris, becomes a potent sculptor. He returns to fight the jealous brother, to die in the struggle. The acting is sincere though violent...
...acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing a pack of cards, more often as an abortionist fumbling with a contraceptive, most frequently as a pornographer raising the dark symbol of a dirty book. His chasing of pornographers did not always end with a clean capture. Over a fairly long period Anthony boasted that he had driven 15 persons to their death, a good number by suicide, others by an act of God. A lady in Philadelphia, mildly mad, wrote...
...philosophical content (since it is strongly put forward) : Efficiency, the fiend created by Inventor to resemble Mary (symbol of heart-love) thus to win the soul of man for capitalist Masterman, leads Humanity toward destruction. Humanity discovers its error, burns Efficiency at the stake, thus releases itself from industrial slavery. Understanding, sympathy, apparently, are needed to lessen the labors of man, not mechanical exactitude. Once the human impulses are unchecked by Efficiency, the milk of human kindness overflows everywhere, class distinctions are washed away in the flood, the toiler's working day is shortened. A Harold Bell Wright mentality...