kira_edom
Joined Sep 2004
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I must have seen this a dozen times over the years. I was about fifteen when I first saw it in B & W on the local PBS station.
I bought a DVD set for the children to see, and am making them watch it. They don't teach history in School, and this explains the most critical event of the 20th Century. It expands their critical thinking.
Impartially, with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why, it details what lead up to the war and the actual war.
Buy it for your children, along with Alistair Cooke's America. Watch it with them, and make them understand. You'll be so glad you did.
I bought a DVD set for the children to see, and am making them watch it. They don't teach history in School, and this explains the most critical event of the 20th Century. It expands their critical thinking.
Impartially, with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why, it details what lead up to the war and the actual war.
Buy it for your children, along with Alistair Cooke's America. Watch it with them, and make them understand. You'll be so glad you did.
M is now three quarters of a century old, yet it is still fresh as today's CNN headlines.
Any student of the Cinema must see this film to see how much they did with technology that was just being born. This was the first talking film in Germany. The Cinema course I had showed M as one of the ten most influential movies of all time. With wonderful directing by Fritz Lang and a stellar performance by Peter Lorre, it's more thrilling than what you'll find produced today by Hollywood. The story is timeless.
It's also a fascinating snapshot of Germany right before the Nazis took over and the Art Deco of the time. The story was inspired by a real case in Dusseldorf. It was so powerful that clips were used in antisemitic propaganda by the Nazis. (They needed it - their propaganda was REALLY boring!)
Any student of the Cinema must see this film to see how much they did with technology that was just being born. This was the first talking film in Germany. The Cinema course I had showed M as one of the ten most influential movies of all time. With wonderful directing by Fritz Lang and a stellar performance by Peter Lorre, it's more thrilling than what you'll find produced today by Hollywood. The story is timeless.
It's also a fascinating snapshot of Germany right before the Nazis took over and the Art Deco of the time. The story was inspired by a real case in Dusseldorf. It was so powerful that clips were used in antisemitic propaganda by the Nazis. (They needed it - their propaganda was REALLY boring!)