ewsk40 Review of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

What a pleasure for the audience but what a pain to a human soul

[10/10 · 4 November 2005]

Magnificent, epic movie, applicable in all times and all places. General assert that god does not exist. Support to Orwel, Bunuel, Harms and other historic men, claiming the same in their opus. Explains, at simple, even romantic way how life might be simple and pure but men makes it complicated, bitter and obscure. Makes you think that mankind would be beautiful without men. Makes even the spectator who abhors pathetic to let tears go by. Director avoided all the traps that can make bad movie of a good story. No long dialogs and insisting on details to stress the point. No explanation of messages that story offers, leaving the audience opportunity to use their own brains. Camera is a separate story. Each cadre is made like a beautiful piece of art from renaissance era. Lights, colors, costumes expressions of faces, all brought to the perfection. Might be compared only with visions from Kubric's movies. Perfect sample of what makes the cinematography competitive branch of art.