Sunrise

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Leo P @RT23366938 Dec 26 Charged with raw emotion, this masterpiece is about temptation, crime, guilt, forgiveness, mutual trust, betrayal, and the meaning of life, among many other things. See more Stephen C @bob25009 06/08/2025 Failure in 1 hour and 50 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Yash B @yashbansal 04/06/2025 "Sunrise" is a beautiful film from the silent era, winning an award that became quickly obsolete in Best Unique or Artistic Production. I still consider this a winner of Best Picture and think it is among the most timeless films from the old days. The themes are relevant to just about anyone, celebrating things like love, forgiveness, and hope. The movie starts out pretty dark and it takes a little while to get into, but once a certain event happens 30 minutes in, the rest of the movie is just a delight. I found myself engaged with the movie and think it is much more accessible than many old films. Overall, it is a joyful experience to watch and one that stands the test of time in more ways than one. See more DanTheMan 2 @DanTheMan2150AD 02/15/2025 Spooky gaslighting amidst temptation and fear, Sunrise admittedly took a while to click with me but it's hard to deny the sheer artistry on display here, blending the figurative, the imaginative and the real into a film that works purely from its simplicity and passion. A blinding portrayal that anyone holding the experiences of the hazards encountered during the tricky travails of a relationship expiring will know only too well. Murnau weaves a dangerous net of excellent technical proficiency here, he takes the barren sets and dark, hallow rooms and turns them into treasure troves of lighting and nuance, creating something as simple as a railway depot or a big traffic intersection and making it a story all by itself. The photography is frequently beautiful mixing German expressionism with a huge helping of Hollywood money and balances a story of obsession, love and forgiveness in a moving, harrowing and heart-rending way, it almost feels a shame that sound came along. Having a silent film that's not overly reliant on interludes was an exceptionally bold move by Murnau, his complete disinterest in them results in a gradual disappearance from the film altogether ultimately just letting his actors express themselves physically, it's a little cheesy and melodramatic yes, but it works within the medium. Without the need to play his story out in a thoroughly realised reality, Murnau uses illusion and the poetry of his medium to communicate the themes of his modernist fable and that's exactly what Sunrise is; a timeless achievement to the world of cinema in a marriage of expressionism, visual lyricism and daring technological ambition. See more Shin S @RT96637311 02/06/2025 农村青年在城市女郎的勾引下要杀害自己的妻子，谋杀前一刻他幡然悔悟，然后和妻子度过了浪漫的蜜月之旅。电影运用了许多多重曝光，幻灯片似的展示了许多城市奇观，让人一睹大萧条来临前的繁华风采。我可以想象当时关注看到这么多迷幻的叠影，这么多游乐场、海浪奇观，会感到多么震撼。而开头城市人来乡下度假的情景，让我思考到底是从什么时候开始，社会开始流行起旅游和度假了呢？ See more Martijn t @Mr_Marty 12/27/2024 Sometimes the canon classics leave you bewildered about what made them earn their reputation. Sometimes you can see why they were influential at the time, without actually enjoying them. But sometimes a movie that's near a 100 years old completely bowls you over, like Sunrise. F.W. Murnau is an absolutely genius of visual story telling. Also the only canon classic prominently featuring a drunk piglet. See more Read all reviews

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