Am I the only one?


Am I the only person who doesn't think this is necessarily a very happy ending? I mean, the guy is still prone to homicidal tendencies. Sure, he wasn't able to go through with it the first time, but he was definitely very ready to kill the woman from the city. Don't get me wrong. This is a terrific film. I'm just not sure that we're meant to take this ending as being a moving declaration of the power of love as I've seen others write. Given the juxtaposition of the final two scenes, I think Murnau may have been going for something a little deeper and darker than that.

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Yabbut, she would've deserved it.

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There is, indeed, something interesting lurking in "Sunrise" not immediately obvious---we're reminded of how passion can stir up a number of things, driving us to commit acts we never may have under less emotional conditions. In "Sunrise", raw simplicity in living--practicality, nearness to natural settings, working to live and eat, rearing children/families and familiarity between townspeople--can inspire the same economy in expression of emotion; clean-cut, distinctive, powerful responses that are anything but ambiguous.

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Oh yeah. The politics of this movie are beyond screwed up. But I admit I got teary-eyed when he begged her for forgiveness.

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Yeah, it seems the husband was a tad bit psycho. There was that scene at the barber shop too, with the knife.



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Many of us are capable of a great many things, given the right circumstances. That woman from the city appealed to his dark side. He even looks like a different man when he is with her. She maddened him. The wife, on the other hand, was a loving influence that he responded to once he was out of the other one's clutches.
Drew Barrymore just said the same thing; how can the wife get over her husband's plan to kill her? Maybe because she knows he has come back to his senses, and anyway, she loves him. I expected a little more imagination from Barrymore, but what can you do?





"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

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The Husband attempted to kill the two women in his life. There's no reason to think he might not do it again.

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