Two movies related to M.
What is nihilistic? Pauvrety, Newtown Gun Shooting, economic crisis, sexual lust, war,one country being a superpower. Mental insanity resolting to undesirable behaviors is a common theme in the following movies "M" , the Cabinet of Dr. Caligary, Lucio Fulci’s Don't torture a Duckling, Aldo Lado’s Who saw her Die? in most case a cause of suchnihilistic behavior is caused by economic crisis, sexual drive, religious moral. human at all ages tends to act nihilitis behavior at all the time. however, a true confesion of ones needs to a community can decrease the occurence of insane behaviors. Always someone need or want is restrained by an opposite person that bring the feeling of nihilistis the person life.
The way in which murder is depicted in this film " M" is different from Caligari. Cesare is compelled to kill because he has no will of his own. Rath is also shown as someone who is consumed by lust, but in this film. Fulci’s film is the better – and better-known – of the two, in its story of an enterprising reporter’s attempts to identify the culprit of a chlid murder . In the spirit of M, Duckling also cast a critical eye on society by focusing on the witch-hunt mentality that arises among the villagers in their search for the killer. The violence – particularly in a graphic scene depicting the “chaining” death of an innocent local witch – is quite gory, but Fulci nevertheless restrained from showing the graphic details of the child murders. Lado’s less-successful Who Saw Her Die? focuses on the search for a killer of two redheaded young girls, seemingly by a female culprit whose face remains hidden behind a black veil up until the final reveal. Likewise, it shows a good amount of restraint in dramatizing the child murders, indicative of the public’s squeamishness regarding the subject matter. It’s also notable for featuring a creepy score by Ennio Morricone.
All of the films deal with the theme of mental insanity to some extent as well. The stark treatment of themes like murder and insanity in the films relate to another argument of Kracauer, who argued that specifically German films produced in this period of time are more brutal and unflinching than films produced in other countries, precisely because of the aftermath of the war, internal revolution, horrible economic circumstances, etc. To use a more modern term, the Germans are essentially desensitized to violence and so are able to consume cultural products such as this despite the repeated use of such nihilistic themes. However, Kracauer interprets this as providing a more realistic depiction of social reality and thus of greater artistic value to the critic.
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