The film was excellent. It was an hour and a half long, but it really felt like short T.V. episodes, especially since a lot of the time is allotted to showing captions and comments. The one distinguishing mark of the movie was how real it was. Apart from the doors miraculously opening like a vine video, everything else was shot in real time. For example the spiders crawling were actually spiders crawling, the raft on the river is actually a raft on a river, and the lighting and darkness was mostly natural lighting. I think this is awfully cool because in our era a lot of those things are mitigated and altered in with CGI effects and green screens, which is why I kept envisioning Nosferatu

standing behind a green screen.

What I found nostalgic from the movie was the constant music playing in the background. For some reason it reminded me of my old Pokemon gameboy games where I could leave the game untouched for hours, but the music would still be playing, and it always drowned out and came back every time you listened to it because it was mostly repetition until those few notes that are particularly interesting.

Here is the Pokemon music I am referring to.

There was something soothing about the movie, unlike other’s I had seen before. Instead of trying to splash you with all these extravagant scenes and prompts, Nosferatu was simple and to the point. Nothing extra was ever involved in the movie, and everything was used efficiently. While it gives us an adventure and a real close look at many things at once, new movies are too overwhelming sometimes and you get put off just by the sheer bourgeois addition of items.  

To add to the scenes, I think it’s important we look at the que cards that explained the dialogue of the characters. Since they can’t waste all their time putting on que cards instead of showing the film, many of those moments are short, concise, to the point, and only used when necessary. I think this adds a little bit more flair and a stronger story to the movie because they are showing what’s going on in the story, and then the speech is used as a second form of explaining the situation which makes the film as a whole seem a lot better; whereas, in today’s films they seem to focus on the speaking instead of the acting so all you hear is a dialogue with no emotion and that makes the movie look amateurish and bad. 

I can see why this film is seen as a masterpiece. It was made in the 1920’s where it can be inferred that advancements in the field of filming had just begun; thus, everything was fresh and new. I think that in itself is a masterpiece because the whole movie is able to go from scene to scene fairly smoothly and there are no interruptions that make the film hard to watch. Once again, in some of our current movies this often happens where we change scene to scene yet there’s no relation; furthermore, the whole movie shows off just enough expression and emotion to show what the characters are like in the film without needing to go the extra mile and over exaggerate the entire film.

Finally, I’d like to note that I found the movie pretty funny because there was such little gore and Hutter’s expressions and feelings toward his wife just seem awfully elementary and unrealistic; nonetheless, I found myself happy when Hutter returned to his home, but sad when Ellen died, and he was left alone.