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the history of fashion and dress.
Luther
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I watched the movie Luther to review. The film tells the famous story of Martin Luther. It has an ominous feel to it, as if waiting for something to happen. The story follows Martin Luther as he leaves the monastery and works to become a priest, a member of the clergy. He is frustrated with the Roman Catholic Church and their practices, as he yearns for a God that is tolerant and loving. He questions the church and struggles to change things as he studies to be a priest. Luther tells everyone how the Church is wrong to be selling indulgences and should instead be loving people. He gets married and translates the Bible to German and things look up for a moment, but then he is forced to fight his lifelong battle again. The story follows Luther's sad journey to follow Christ in the face of Roman adversity. The style of the movie is realistic and gloomy. The 16th century was a time of change and that is clear in this film. I think the costumes in the film augmented the story properly. The people were dressed in rags, which contrasted nicely with the church officials in their decadent velvet. Luther was dressed for the majority of the movie in a simple black tunic.
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The costumes seemed to me to be realistic for the 16th century. There were a few instances that made me wonder about the realism of the costumes. At one point in the movie, a very important religious man (I think the Pope) was wearing a very strange hat that looked to be made of paper and had flaps covering his ears. This seemed out of place, but I suppose could very well be authentic to the time period. Another strange costume moment was at Luther’s trial when all the princes were wearing Dalmatian looking hats and wraps. I found them to be distracting and odd, but again perhaps they are authentic. I thought the costumes were overall very successful in this movie because they did not distract from the story. On the contrary, the costumes complimented the story and helped make it more believable. I think the most important thing the costumes did for the movie was to show the extreme differences between the common people and the church officials.
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