Münchhausen

The narrative framing of the story was important in that it made us jump back to the past and reflect on it in terms of a more current time. As Rentschler said, it creates a "collsion" of the eighteenth and twentieth century Germany. I think this is important in terms of the Nazi era because there was a great focus on looking back at Germany's past and combining aspects of the old with the new. While these flashbacks and jumps in time were essential to this movie I found that in combination with the outlandish stories and special effects it became nearly impossible to follow. I agree with Rentschler that perhaps this was exactly the point, to create a word so insane and unrealistic that it makes the real one seem stable. However, I think this could have still been achieved with a slightly more coherent film. I found myself struggling to follow along rather than be able to simply fully appreciate the insanity. The special effects seem to have been thrown in without true regard to the story line, as if they were simply used because they had discovered how to use this trick photography in the film. I found it amusing and funny when there were silly things like the world where every day was a year and heads were lost from their bodies, but it would have been more appreciated if I could have fully understood it in the context of the story line.