Wow, Caligari’s jagged angles and harsh shadows feel like a visual rebellion that makes you question reality, and that’s exactly what a good story needs— a push against the obvious. Those tricks didn’t stay stuck in Germany; they slipped into Japanese surrealism, Mexican muralism, even modern indie horror, teaching filmmakers that framing can be a character itself. It shows that when you bend the lens, you bend the audience’s expectations, letting different cultures remix the same idea into something fresh and unsettling.