1925年的《造物的奇迹》常被拿来与同年稍晚的《大都会》对比，但它的野心不在未来城邦，而在一个局促的实验室里。导演Kornblum在表现主义美学中注入冷静的观察视角，倾斜构图与强对比光影将实验室塑造成一个既神圣又令人不安的封闭空间——墙壁的阴影与器械的几何线条形成视觉上的“牢笼”，暗示技术理性对人性边界的侵蚀。Margarete Schön饰演的女科学家眼神里既有狂热也有惊惧，那种矛盾感穿透了银幕；而Paul Bildt扮演的助手在最后崩溃时的细微颤栗，比任何嚎叫都更有冲击力。剧情并不追求快节奏反转，而是慢慢铺陈生命被创造后的伦理困境，像一场无声的哲学辩论。Margarete Schön扮演的角色在铸铁管道和冒泡溶液间穿行，她的惊恐不是尖叫式的，而是藏在颤抖的嘴角和僵住的脊背里——这比任何特效都更让人心头一紧。适合那些不满足于“娱乐性科幻”、想要感受20世纪初德国知识分子如何用影像追问“人类配不配扮演上帝”的观众。
Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed. The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.相关搜索：
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