The reputation of this film is not small, of course, all the sticky notes on its head are shiny: expressionist master Fritz Long plus "the best actor in the world" Peter Lowe, plus reality Event adaptation, plus the first serial killer movie, plus IMDB TOP ranked #56, and finally plus Fritz Lang’s first sound film, there is no reason not to believe that this is a movie worthy of fun .
But I was wrong. All the above titles are not enough to outline the fundamental core of [M]. Before the last scene, I always thought it was just a talking film about the perverted murderers in the 1930s, but one from The birthplace of the gang’s trial has elevated this 110-minute black-and-white film to a point where no contemporary film can be underestimated. From [Metropolis] to [M], Fritz Lang has become more and more inwardly of people.
But first of all, it is unavoidable that this is indeed Fritz Lang's first sound film, and technological innovation is often the most basic and decisive. Strictly speaking, however, many sound elements are still lacking. Even in most cases, sound only exists as an explanation of the picture. Fritz Lang seems to be quite worried about the expressive role of sound. He added sound in several places. The above pictures are used to express, for example, when the sheriff is looking at the confession about the robbery, the reproduction of the scene is actually a repetitive expression of sound and picture. Secondly, the so-called "sound", to a greater extent, is just "with dialogue". Early audio films most intuitively realized that language can directly participate in the film, but sound effects have not been added. Except for dialogue, cars, streets, and props, it is difficult to hear the environment. Sound effects, not to mention expressive sound effects and music. Once again, the synchronization of audio and picture seems to be a principle to be adhered to. One voice corresponds to one picture, and all voices are realistic in the present, which seems to be a rare feeling today.
Of course, these points can only be used as a comparison of the sound of films of the present and the past. Only 4 years after the appearance of sound films, Fritz Lang has given such a masterpiece that combines sound and picture. It is already difficult. Imagine, besides, there is an important sound element in [M], that is the song [Pilgent] hummed by the murderer. Again, it was in 1931 that Fritz Lang asked a killer to hum a song. To kill people, and let this key element-both plot and auditory-appear again and again. You must know that the perverted murderer image is created by humming and killing people and leaving a deep impression. It is still a time-tested classic. (I don’t need to cite an example.) In
addition to the sound, the last 5 minutes of the trial, the gang’s trial of the murderer, and what the defender said, "No one can kill a person irresponsibly, and a country cannot", this The political and judicial concepts expressed in it, and even the thinking about human rights, only need to be connected with the reality of Germany in 1931, and it is not difficult to know a thing or two.
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