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M: the street
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| News media. The placard asking "Who is the murderer?" is surrounded by signs for other kinds of entertainment. | |||||||||||||||||||
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A street confrontation with social class overtones.
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| A brief glimpse of posters for the movie Westfront 1918, the only overt reference in M to World War I. | Contemporary audiences would have associated amputees among the beggars with war veterans. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Shopwindows with symbolic displays: a phalllic arrow and hypnotic spiral; a jumping-jack whose legs form the letter M. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Displays of knives for sale; a potential victim appearls surrounded by them.
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| Beckert is frequently seen with food, a reference to Freudian orality (unrestained appetite); at the fruitseller's, he cannot delay eating even during his transaction. . |
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Knife, fruit, and victim appear together.
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| Pursued across an expressionistic urban landscape. | |||||||||||||||||||
| the opening sequence experimentation with film sound point of view and identification mirrors and shadows the official world and the underworld the surveillance society social issues |
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