Mental Illness Murderer

Naomie 2022-03-20 09:01:34

It's a really cool movie just by the name, and sure enough, it's a masterpiece. Although the master said that the film was made to warn mothers to look after their children, the actual meaning is far greater than that.

The murder of children touches the bottom line of human nature, and it is neither black nor white. The city-wide raids carried out by the police under their duties have seriously affected the "business" of the gang. So the two tracks simultaneously began to hunt down the child-killing killer.

The first time the murderer appeared was a black shadow reflected on the poster. From the happy and sweet smile of the children, one could imagine that he was disguised as a kind fat uncle; as the balloon hit the telephone pole, it was announced that the murderer had succeeded again, and another cute one. His child was brutally murdered. Although he did not appear, the fat shadow had become a brutal shadow.

The murderer appeared for the third time after writing the letter and was facing the mirror. All at once we saw all his features. From his expression, and as the police deduced from his handwriting, he was a brutal murderer who suffered from mental disorders. . Later we see him again find the uncontrollable perverted face of "Prey", he is humming the same tune and is recognized by the blind beggar who sells balloons, so a young beggar follows him, very witty at him. slapped an "M" on the back shoulder. So he couldn't escape.

M means murder. He hid in the attic of an office building and was finally caught by the gangsters and brought back for trial. The momentum of that trial is really far greater than the court. He defended himself that he couldn't control his behavior when he killed, and the defense lawyer defended him that he was suffering from mental illness and needed treatment rather than punishment.

Between the arguments, the police arrived and "saved" him. Because of his mental illness, he was not sentenced to death. The second mothers, those mothers who have lost their children, have dull eyes and can't escape the pain of losing their children for a lifetime.

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Extended Reading
  • Annabell 2022-04-22 07:01:08

    Lang's first film has sound, although it seems that the sound level is very low today, the scenes without lines are basically silent, the sound effects and ambient sounds are very few, especially the large section of the police raid is so quiet that there is no footsteps, it seems that people are deaf. But there are many parts of using voice to narrate, which can be said to be the super-efficient use of voice, from whistle (Grieg's "In the Hall of Mountain King", trolls chasing children, even the literature is in line with the plot) as the voice of the murderer committing crimes Motivation, blind people keenly capture sound information as the key to the plot, to officials explaining picture information across multiple shots in a single phone call, to actors' performances revealing different emotions and power relations in the scene through volume and timbre, and conveying more through lines than silent movies. With a lot of information, the gesture of stepping into a sound film is really a great stride of genius. Although most of the fixed shots and most of the moving shots are for display, the composition and lighting are really good. In addition, this modernist office building made me curious, Berlin was really a pioneer of modernity back then.

  • Glennie 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    German film master Fritz Lang created an amazing audio-visual language in his first sound film. The most famous shadow before the poster is just the simplest, the sound and picture are separated, the whistle, the actors perform with big eyes, and the secrets of the underworld The execution and other dramatic and cinematic sense reached the strongest of that era.

M quotes

  • Woman in Crowd: Shoot him like a mad dog!

  • Man in Pub: Hey, it's fatty Lohmann!

    Everyone in Pub: [Chanting] Lohmann, Lohmann, Lohmann!