anity of a character. It is used within a frame composition to grab our attention. The iris can be used to give a close-up of a character. For example, there is a scene in which Caligari is shown, instead of the camera zooming in the iris closes to make it seem like it is zooming in to show a close-up shot. The iris is like an eye looking at the story. The film does not have any camera movement making it more of a theatrical film. This film is both a restricted and nonrestricted narrative. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has two styles, that of a fantasy film and a psychological film. Fantasy film because it has an imaginary domain. Psychological film because the story revolves around the thoughts of the characters. The film breaks the rules of realism. In the story everything is crooked and all the sets are painted. The people with authority are revealed in exaggerated high chairs. An example is the police sitting on the high chairs in the police station. Weine uses balanced composition in the film. For instance, Francis is in the police station talking to the police. In this scene Francis is in the middle and on both of sides there are equal amounts of policemen, stools, and triangular window.In conclusion, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a film that with its “Expressionist stylization functions to convey the distorted viewpoints of a madman” (Bordwell and Thompson, 408). This film uses the elements of mise-en-scene to depict the story through Francis eyes. We see the world of this film through the eyes of a crazy man....
