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Hi !kino bros 
The book I'm currently reading about nazi art theft and the recent post on Weimar made me dig futher on that period's cultural stage.
The Weimar era Germany had a thriving and innovative film industry, many of the works of that period were labeled as “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate art 
) among them masterpieces like “Nosferatu” 
“Metropolis” 
and “M” 
Have you guys watched films from that era? What are your favorites if you have one?
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Nosferatu still holds up tbh. The muted colour and silent film unironically sell you're looking at an undead monster
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I saw M, kinda sucked butt ngl
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I understand the film is considered significant for it's innovative camera work and for being one of the first of the “film noir” genre, but I didn't buy the message, or maybe I just didn't get it straight and got a wrong interpretation.
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You're missing that the people putting Beckert on trial are criminals themselves. They only even have a trial, rather than simply shooting him and being done with it, in an effort to convince themselves of their own moral superiority. Which is, as Beckert and his "attorney" point out, completely absurd. Murdering innocent adults for the "rational" reason of financial gain is, at best, marginally less terrible than murdering innocent children for the "perverse" reason of sexual pleasure.
And it's not as though the film suggests Beckert shouldn't be punished. It's made very clear that he cannot be allowed to exist in general society, and tossing him in a psychiatric ward doesn't work either. They already tried that once, and he was released. That's how the police are able to identify him.
The film ends with Beckert being taken in by the police and standing trial before the proper authorities, not a bunch of mobsters. And even then, the sentence isn't shown. We simply see the dead girl's mother saying that no sentence can bring back the dead, and that we all, audience included, need to keep a closer eye on our children.
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Yeah, I didn't want to mean the vigilante “court”, but rather the final and actual trial, Beckert will be sentenced to death and executed (child murderers were guillotined in Germany back
), even if he was mentally ill (he could be pretending) I still think it's fair, kind of like putting down a rabid dog.
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Also the criminals aren't really that interested in the fact Peter Lorre is killing kids, but more pissed off from the heat it's bringing the entire criminal underground imo.
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good reading. i love M and it irks me how people see it as advocating for child murderers or whatever
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Sympathy for the murderer is pretty common these days
But another message of the movie is that people on the witch hunt may not actually care about the victims, evidenced by one of the final scenes in the movie where the mothers who lost children are mourning and no one ever bothered to check up on them.
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That's a good point, even nowadays there's little focus on comforting the victims families.
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The message isn't complicated. It's that the guy who zones out and murders children should be treated for his psychological disorder and not executed (or more specifically not tortured and murdered at the hands of the mob, which is what would have happened in the film).
I'm sure you understood it fine, you just didn't agree lol.
I thought it was a decent movie. Probably more culturally significant than pure entertainment but it wasn't very long either.
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It's Entartet for a reason.
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Dasein ohne Leben
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https://vimeo.com/835454981
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No, I shall not watch the gruesome genocide of my fellow people
!r-slurs report this chud for R-slurcide apologica
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Can you translate that from Portuguese to English?
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“BWC, go watch this thing”
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zoz
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I really like "The Last Laugh"
I also saw Metropolis last year with a dude in the theater who made his own futuristic soundtrack for it, lots of fun. That Moloch scene is still very amazing.
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Not weimar, but I love this old Soviet film about ivan the terrible from 1944
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