Sunrise Analysis

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but the location and buildings are more like European scenic environment which Petrie described as “no man’s land”. The director also blurs the line between the city and country by using transportation such as train, steam ships and trolley to shift one place to another (from country to the city) in order to convey the message of uncertainty and the set of change in the modern society where modes of social life or organization emerged in Europe in around the seventeenth century. As the film constitutes the phenomenon of modernization which is the conception of modernity, the society encounters the set of transformation which can be seen in the film that when the couples are in the city scene, it suddenly and magically became to the field.
The good and evil discourse is also underlined in Sunrise. The country woman is characterized as good whereas the city woman is evil, and the man is a victim to the set of change in the modern society where capitalist modernity is ...

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