12019-01-24T19:06:49+00:001.11 The Crowd2The Crowd (1928)plain2019-01-24T19:07:12+00:00After a quick city montage, the film cuts to a low-angle shot of an enormous skyscraper—actually, a miniature lying on the floor. The camera appears to crane up, up, impossibly up, toward one of the higher floors, where it approaches a window. When the camera’s ascent turns into a descent, we realize the stark contrast between the camera’s seeming ability to go anywhere and John’s own fate, going nowhere.