Part 10: "Ghost Carriage"
The title of the film alone is enough to stimulate the audience's senses. When the movie Ghost Carriage premiered in 1921, it was a world-renowned success. This ninety-three-minute Swedish film is silent black and white. It has made the director, screenwriter and actor Victor. Victor Sjostrom's fame has also impressed filmgoers around the world with Swedish silent films.
In fact, the contribution is far more than that, "Ghost Carriage" has also brought a wide and far-reaching impact on the artistic style of many of the world's great directors and producers.
As we all know, the most important, most attractive and famous part of the movie "Ghost Carriage" shows the human spiritual world as a middle ground between heaven and reality, that is, the cage of human suffering. Or rather, the human mind, a painful area of the spirit. The protagonist of the film is an alcoholic. He was filled with hatred in his heart, impulsive on the outside, and he was in a state of self-destruction at any time and anywhere.
His name was David. Holm. There is such a scene, it is a wonderful idea, it is really a classic of the classics. When the midnight bell rings in the New Year, David. Holm suddenly woke up, staring at his own corpse, and knew that he was destined to go to hell. Anyone who pays attention to and studies the history of cinema cannot ignore it, and in fact cannot avoid this plot.
The story seems simple. It took a lot of time and effort to build, and the carefully arranged stage can be double exposed. Deliberately created a three-dimensional unreal ghost world. This artistic conception goes far beyond the visual effects of any previous film. The film structure of Ghost Carriage is complex and particularly simple.
The story uses a series of flashbacks, which contain other flashbacks, and the creators have glorified and at the same time poetically beautified this rough fairy tale about poverty and depravity.
We look back at Victor. Sjøstrom's career, Ghost Carriage, actually took him to the then-controversial breakthrough film Inngeborg. Many of the social questions raised in Holm are further extended theologically and philosophically. The film depicts the constant destruction of human dignity in the cold and unforgiving society in which we live, and eventually the victim is pushed into a cruel, insane situation. Film star HiI.da Borgstrom starred in in 1913 in Inseborg. Holm, who impressed the audience, once again starred as the abused wife in "Ghost Carriage": another completely desperate Mrs. Holm.
She was a kind and poor mother. She is about to face suicide or be detained and sent to a mental hospital, and there is no escape from this tragic fate.
The film is based on the novel by Selma Lager I.of. The author is religiously religious. The film is faithful to the original work, and the realistic performance makes the protagonists' bleak fate long overdue. The dramatic ending impressed the audience.