The Blue Angel

This film was very interesting and entertaining for me, perhaps because I know someone who followed Professor Rath’s footsteps. The scene I chose was the one where Professor Rath is leaving the school followed by his start pupil and the other students. The other students trip him after setting him up with Lola’s picture. I think that scene represents the typical scenario where a person or group is trying to obey the rules or laws and in the process becomes the outcast. He became the target of his peers because he was the nerd. I the same way anyone who did not follow the established and accepted social norms in Germany, would have suffer the same fate.   I the film reinforce traditional notions of morality because at the beginning the professor was a model citizen and everything appeared to be well in his life until he decided to get involved with Lola. Since he deviated from the rules of proper class people, he became an outcast and suffers until the end for it.

1. I the same way that Siddhartha fell for Kamala,   Rath became enamored with, so mush         so that he chooses her over his career.

2. I think Lola is an emancipated woman because she did as she pleased with men including Prof. Rath. Also her views on life are reflected in her song when she performs. All the men want her and she can’t help it.

3. I think the significance of the clown is very simple. It represents the Professor’s downfall. It clown is seen as a coarse, rude, vulgar person foolishness and disrespect, ridicule and that is what Prof. Rath becomes in the end.

4. Chaos thematically represented in the film from the very first scene where we see the houses has very irregular shapes and the disorder in the street with the ducks making noises. We also see chaos in the Blue Angel where people are coming and going back and forth for no apparent reason. The kids are hanging around and people are shouting during the performance.

5. I think the overall meaning of the film illustrates what can happen when we let irrational thinking govern us. I think the film is more inline with keeping people in fear of acting on irrational thoughts, or take a change in life and deviate from the norm. On one hand we see Prof. Rath try to corrects his students and on the other we see him throwing away his life career  for a Bar woman.

6. I think   comparing Rath to the Haussmann painting/montage is a good comparison because in the painting we see an intellectual man who is knowledgeable of the sciences and is well dressed but is juxtapose with a men who is broke with a map above him which represents his travels.