What an opening.
Cut to former life.
Color codes (mostly):
Blue is for dreams.
Yellow for schemes.
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This is classic Murnau: an ordinary man with a simple life gets lost in an image. The image is a desire for something that he believes is better than what he already has. The image always leads the ordinary man astray leading to betrayal, violence, and depravity. It's hard to feel sorry for Lorenz here. He's a real dumbass. Perhaps that's why Phantom is so underwhelming compared to Murnau's greats. However, the dreams are so enthralling that I'll take a little narrative boredom if it means we get sequences like this.
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