Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. Murnau (1927).

The plot of this film is typical of nineteenth-century domestic melodrama, involving the temptations held out to a young farmer, living happily with his wife and child, by a city vamp, who consumes his small financial resources and finally suggests murdering his wife. The iconography of the domestic drama is everywhere. This iconography contributes to the extreme polarities between which the man is pulled, and which are intensified by non - individualisation of the protagonists, designated only as the man,