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In this paper I will prove that Murnau’s uses of light and dark help illustrate not only the good and evil side of humans but also his use of light and dark was like a narrator that helped tell the story of inanimate objects or scenes that otherwise couldn’t speak for themselves.
Not having the characters able to speak just meant the director has to come up with other ways to tell his story besides the actors’ expressions and title cards. While Murnau used special effects, set design, extreme angles, and camera movement very well, I believe his use of lighting was his most effective method. Although his uses of special effects help in the films dream sequences and his elaborate set design created an exaggerated fairy-tale-like world those visuals alone didn’t stand out as much and couldn’t carry the film as well as his use of lighting.
By naming the film “Sunrise” shows the directors’ dedication to lighting effects and the differences that light and dark portray in this medium. Since sunrise and sunset for that matter are merely optical illusions being that the sun never actually moves let alone rises and falls, perhaps Murnau was foreshadowing the relationship between the man and the wife in the tile of the movie. From the beginning it would seem as if the woman from the city, and the money lenders would not only ruin him but also ruin his marriage. When the woman from the city devises a plan to get rid of the wife it seemed sure that the sun would set on this marriage, however we already know sunset is only an illusion. Through the ups and downs of their marriage, whether it be from the man trying to kill the wife to the man trying to gain her trust back