Mephisto Movie Review

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CAA- Mephisto The film is a drama. The movie is mainly about the choices Höfgen makes to help others, his career and his social position. He goes against his own beliefs to achieve this, which brings the moral dilemma along of whether he is really doing the right thing. These changes that occur in Höfgen’s personality is what the film is really about. The moral of the movie for me, is that you should trust your instincts: Höfgen knew the Nazi’s were no good, but he got involved with them anyway and in the end, it didn’t work out well for him. I think this is also the moral message that this movie wants to bring across. That and, stick to what you know. Höfgen was a great actor, but he shouldn’t have tried to interfere with politics as well, that only caused trouble for him. The film is provocative culturally or politically, it forces you to judge the situation and make decisions for yourself, it shows a bad side of the Nazi’s, but it is way too late to do anything about them. The movie is more meant to entertain and educate. The story happens chronologically. The story developes in the way that, when the plot comes, the audience has come to love Hendrik Höfgen because, however crazy he can be, we now know that he is really a good person inside and you come the feel sad for him, bound to his faith of only being a ‘Schauspieler’. The plot really shows what was happening in the movie all along: Höfgen is just an actor, though he wants to do more. The end shows how he just has to do as he is told as the scriptwriter wants, or as the Nazi-leader wants. The music is mainly there to make the dramatic moments more intense. Furthermore there is only really music when it is really also in the story happening, e.g. during the plays or feasts. The montage of the film is very common: the little shots are put together chronologically. There are no special effects. The

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