NPI Annotation English BAWE "Ever"

Freder''s second hallucination exemplifies one critic''s definition of Expressionist cinema as involving ''melodramatic acting'', ''a subjective experience of time'' and ''a vividness or intensity of sensory perception''. His acting, as ever, is utterly melodramatic during this scene, illustrated throughout by his eyes, which are widened in terror, and at the conclusion of his vision, in which he punches an arm into the air to ward off Death''s scythe.