The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Robert Wiene, the director of the film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, combines fact and fiction in his expressionist film in effort to captivate his viewers. This film portrays the fragment of fantasy in that it has an imaginary realm. The film breaks the rules of realism. In the story everything is hunched and all the sets be painted. The people with authority are revealed in exaggerate spirited chairs for example the police is shown sitting on one of the high chairs in the police station.Francis first turns away from reality after Allen has been remove because of the psychological pain it causes. In order to cope with this, Francis fantasizes that he is not the target of blame for his best friends murder by blaming Dr. Calgari. His fantasy extends to a point where he is seen as the hero by challenging Dr. Caligari and Cesare. posterior on in the film, it is discovered that the dream work that Franciss unconscious mind uses to produce this story is r elated to the Freudian dream compend he mechanisms and symbols to produce his fantasy.In addition, Dr. Caligari and Cesare are not real people they are fragments of Francis imagination and serve as objects used to place blame upon. The films evasive ending leaves the validity of Francis story unknown because his illness is not explicitly confirmed. However, the Freudian theory shows that Francis has fantasized the entire story to satisfy his guilty mind.