The supernatural world also cannot have control over the natural world. When phantom David sees his wife trying to kill herself and their two children. David knows this is happening, but he can do nothing to save her, and his wife can’t see or hear David. He then begs Death to help. Death says that he has “no power over the living!” (Sjöström, The Phantom Carriage). The transparent men or phantoms created by double exposure are in one world, and the living are in another parallel world, so they have no control over the other and cannot even impact one another. This idea of uncontrollable death and the supernatural exerts a sense of horror. Therefore, the director uses double exposure to depict the dead men as phantoms, which creates the atmosphere of horror and illustrates the supernatural
The supernatural world also cannot have control over the natural world. When phantom David sees his wife trying to kill herself and their two children. David knows this is happening, but he can do nothing to save her, and his wife can’t see or hear David. He then begs Death to help. Death says that he has “no power over the living!” (Sjöström, The Phantom Carriage). The transparent men or phantoms created by double exposure are in one world, and the living are in another parallel world, so they have no control over the other and cannot even impact one another. This idea of uncontrollable death and the supernatural exerts a sense of horror. Therefore, the director uses double exposure to depict the dead men as phantoms, which creates the atmosphere of horror and illustrates the supernatural