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We studied Caligari in class too. Apparently the "twist ending" was the result of...*scare chord* executive meddling!

The creepy director playing puppetmaster was supposed to symbolize how a bunch of similarly creepy old dudes sent uncountable numbers of young men to their deaths in WWI. Madman running the asylum, playing God.

The meddling executives, whoever they were, decided that ending was too subversive, so they insisted a new ending be tacked on where the narrator is insane and OF COURSE the Authority Figure is good and trustworthy and will make it better. He's a good guy. Really. Tru-u-ust himmm... *spooky hypnotic voice*

Except that since we've been seeing him for so long as this scary puppetmaster, this ending is even worse. For all we know, the madman is still running the asylum and has bamboozled everybody into thinking the Only Sane Man is insane, so don't listen to him.

The executives must have been a bit thick.