Dr. caligari layers or meaning essays

Dr. caligari layers or meaning essays The meanings of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" are numerous. It is a film with layers that keep peeling away and never come to an end, similar to the conclusion of the film. There is no pit, your mind keeps going, the layers keep coming. You are left with questions; what did this film mean explicitly, implicitly, symptomatically, and referentially? Also quite undeniably, this film more than an illusion. A state of indecisiveness jumbles your mind and the feeling of naivete comes over you. Dr. Caligari strategically tricks Francis as well as myself into believing his innocence, which in the end is left unanswered completely but leaning toward wrong. A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiance Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn. The prophecy comes to pass, as Alan is murdered, and Cesare is a prime suspect. Cesare creeps into Jane's bedroom and abducts her, running from the townspeople and finally dying of exhaustion. Meanwhile, the police discover a dummy in Cesare's cabinet, while Caligari flees. Francis tracks Caligari to a mental asylum. He is the director! Implicitly the film implies that the world around might seem fine, normal, but in fact below the surface there is a world of corruption and deceit. The film was made when Hitler and the nazi's where coming into power and taking over the country, influencing the germans significantly on his idea of the perfect german, obviously promoting anti-semitism. It is possible that this film implies the question of Hitler's innocence in the nazi german minds. It is possible that Dr. Caligari is implied to represent Hitler. In which Cesare, the somnambulist, represent the nazi's under Hitler's command who conduct murders wrongly for the sick minded manipulator. In the film...