12019-01-30T01:03:01+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11The Man Who Laughs (1928)plain2019-01-30T01:03:01+00:00Critical Commons19282019-01-28T19:20:42ZVideoPaul LeniThe Man Who LaughsPatrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b
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12019-01-30T01:33:37+00:001.x24 The Man Who Laughs1The Man Who Laughs (1928)plain2019-01-30T01:33:37+00:00When Gwynplaine looks at the crowd below, the camera suddenly descends toward the ground. The subjective shot represents Gwynplaine’s fear of falling rather than the fall itself, and it closely resembles a moment in the German film Variety. Both films use a descending camera to represent a fall that occurs only in the protagonist’s mind.