12019-01-30T01:02:12+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11The Cat and the Canary (1927)plain2019-01-30T01:02:12+00:00Critical Commons19272019-01-28T18:59:27ZVideoPaul LeniThe Cat and the CanaryPatrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b
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12019-01-30T01:25:44+00:001.x18 The Cat and the Canary1The Cat and the Canaryplain2019-01-30T01:25:44+00:00When the portrait falls to the floor, a downward movement represents the point of view of the painting—an inanimate object. A few moments later, the camera’s forward movement represents the point-of-view of the maid, even though she appears to be looking in a different direction. These two moving shots form a mirrored pair, both representing a not-quite-human point of view—in the first case because the subject is an eerily lifelike portrait, in the second case because the subject is an ominously machinelike person.