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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
Fantastic movie that expresses the era
"M" by Fritz Lang is a suspenseful and tricky film that will make you question your own morals and create an internal dilemma with its ending and show the conflict of the working class german people with local authorities.
The movie features many dark elements and traditional german expressionism, which can be clearly seen in many parts of the movie such as the opening scene. That same scene and many more like when the detective repeats "Ariston" and the camera pans in with each phrase are the ones that build the suspense of the crazed child killer we are slowly introduced to.
The film's main plot is of course the child killer, but it also expresses the conflict of the working class with police. In a lot of ways it feels like that is what Fritz Lang is really trying to express over the main plot's moral dilemma, and for the time (1931) it makes a lot of sense. With the German people in an economic crises and wanting for a new leader.
Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora (1912)
Timeless film.
The Cameraman's Revenge is a quaint little film with a funny and entertaining narrative and animations that will be timeless. Produced in Moscow Russia, it marked some of the last films made before the Russian revolution of 1917. It served as a break from the normal everyday hardships that Russians were feeling with the slow and sluggish economy of 1912. The Cameraman's Revenge is part of some of the first stop motion films ever produced and featured actual dried out insects instead of clay or other material models. Because of that it may have been a little disturbing to some viewers, but it's human set and human narrative help ease some of that. The animation is very well done for it's time and took a high amount of skill to create a film that could pass for a decent quality stop motion film today. Overall I think this film is very well done with how it tells its story and its production quality.