Films that involve child murders and pedophilles are not issues that people want to see on the big screen. Some films manage to be sucessful because they only mention what happened instead of showing it. Also they don't make the whole movie about the incident only. Plots in these films are also successful because it is based on reality.
Who Saw Her Die? is a film in which there is a search for a person who murdered two young girls with red hair. A womans face stays hidden until the end and she seems to be a culprit. Another film that depicts another serial child murder is Don't Tourture a Duckling. They are trying to find out who committed the murders against young delinquent boys and are on a witch hunt to find the murderer.
Both these films relate to M because they restrain from showing the graphic details of the child murders which make it a more capitulated film to watch. In the M all the murders occurred off screen. They focus on how they are going to catch the killer and with the help of society, which take it upon themselves to take matters into their own hands.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
The Blue Angel
Paragraph 175
Paragraph 175 was adopted in 1871 and was amended several times. It made homosexual acts between males a crime. It reverted to the old version of the law in 1950 and limited its scope to sex with youths under 18 in 1968, and abolished it entirely in 1988. Suspected offenders would be put in concentration camps where most would die. In the film The Blue Angel Lola and Rath relationship was not approved of and led to him losing his job because of it. Rath was punished because he did not live up societies standards.
"Chuck Out the Men" (Raus mit den Männern), by Friedrich Hollaender (1926)
German versionRaus mit den Männern!(für Claire Waldoff)
Es geht durch die ganze Historie
ein Ruf nach Emanzipation
vom Menschen bis zur Infusorie
überall will das Weib auf den Thron.
Vin Hawai-Neger bis zur Berliner Range
braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall daher:
Was die Männer können, können wir schon lange
und vielleicht ’ne ganze Ecke mehr.
English interpretation
The battle for emancipation's been raging since history began
Yes, feminists of every nation want to chuck off the chains made by man
Hula girls and housemaids and wives in Maribou
hear all our voices thunder in protest
Anything that men do women can do too
and more that that we women do it best
My Interpretation: Women have been fighting for equal rights for a long time. Men are only living up to conditions that press upon them. Women are advocates and supporters of rights and equality and every nation wants to be released from these "chains". The reason I chose this song is because women had to channel their hopes and dreams into satisfying their husband and bringing up his children. At one point this changed even today women are being oppressed in certain jobs that they work in.
"No Time" (Keine Zeit), music by Rudolf Nelson, lyrics by Herbert Nelson
English version
No time, no time, no time.
Yes, we have no time.
Sorry, but we're always on the go,
with tongues hanging out as we run.
We have no spare time.
No time, no time, no time,
no hours nor even a second to spare.
We hardly sleep, we don’t rest.
No time, no time, no time.
German version
Keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Zeit. Ja, wir haben keine Zeit. Es tut uns leid.
Wir sind immer auf dem Sprung, haengt uns raus schon die Zung und doch wir rennen, ja wir kennen keine Zeit.
Keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Stunde und Sekunde haben wir Zeit. Ja, wir schlafen heute kaum noch, denn wir ruhen uns nicht aus. Keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Zeit.
We live in a society where time is a resource that we can use well or poorly. People are sometimes tied up in thier schedules that they cannot participate or enjoy human interactions that are necessary to a fulling life. Time is money they say!
Paragraph 175 was adopted in 1871 and was amended several times. It made homosexual acts between males a crime. It reverted to the old version of the law in 1950 and limited its scope to sex with youths under 18 in 1968, and abolished it entirely in 1988. Suspected offenders would be put in concentration camps where most would die. In the film The Blue Angel Lola and Rath relationship was not approved of and led to him losing his job because of it. Rath was punished because he did not live up societies standards.
"Chuck Out the Men" (Raus mit den Männern), by Friedrich Hollaender (1926)
German versionRaus mit den Männern!(für Claire Waldoff)
Es geht durch die ganze Historie
ein Ruf nach Emanzipation
vom Menschen bis zur Infusorie
überall will das Weib auf den Thron.
Vin Hawai-Neger bis zur Berliner Range
braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall daher:
Was die Männer können, können wir schon lange
und vielleicht ’ne ganze Ecke mehr.
English interpretation
The battle for emancipation's been raging since history began
Yes, feminists of every nation want to chuck off the chains made by man
Hula girls and housemaids and wives in Maribou
hear all our voices thunder in protest
Anything that men do women can do too
and more that that we women do it best
My Interpretation: Women have been fighting for equal rights for a long time. Men are only living up to conditions that press upon them. Women are advocates and supporters of rights and equality and every nation wants to be released from these "chains". The reason I chose this song is because women had to channel their hopes and dreams into satisfying their husband and bringing up his children. At one point this changed even today women are being oppressed in certain jobs that they work in.
"No Time" (Keine Zeit), music by Rudolf Nelson, lyrics by Herbert Nelson
English version
No time, no time, no time.
Yes, we have no time.
Sorry, but we're always on the go,
with tongues hanging out as we run.
We have no spare time.
No time, no time, no time,
no hours nor even a second to spare.
We hardly sleep, we don’t rest.
No time, no time, no time.
German version
Keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Zeit. Ja, wir haben keine Zeit. Es tut uns leid.
Wir sind immer auf dem Sprung, haengt uns raus schon die Zung und doch wir rennen, ja wir kennen keine Zeit.
Keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Stunde und Sekunde haben wir Zeit. Ja, wir schlafen heute kaum noch, denn wir ruhen uns nicht aus. Keine Zeit, keine Zeit, keine Zeit.
We live in a society where time is a resource that we can use well or poorly. People are sometimes tied up in thier schedules that they cannot participate or enjoy human interactions that are necessary to a fulling life. Time is money they say!
Monday, October 8, 2012
Max Horkheimer
"self-awareness in contemporary society is directly connected with belonging to some collectivity: to an age group or vocational group, and ultimately to the nation. The divergence between individual and group that is now disappearing continues to show up among stunted individuals, criminals, and people who can assert themselves only by opposition to everything else." -Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer was born February 14, 1895 and was a Germn philosopher and sociologist. Horkheimer was a member of the Frankfrut school of social research. He was the only son of a wealthy orthodox Jewish family. His father pressured him and wanted him to take over the family business. Horkheimer left school at the age of 16 to work in his fathers company. In 1916 his career ended because he was drafted into WWI. After WWI ended he attended Munich University where he studied philosophy and psychology. Horkheimer moved to Frankfurt am Main where he meet Theodor Adorno. The Institute of Social Researches's directorship became vacant in 1930 Horkheimer was elected to the position he also took over the chair of social philosophy at Frankfurt University. In 1940, Horkheimer received American citizenship and moved to the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, California, where his collaboration with Adorno would yield the Dialectic of Enlightenment. In 1949, he returned to Frankfurt where the Institute for Social Research reopened in 1950. In 1953, Horkheimer stepped down from director of the Institute and took on a smaller role in the Institute, while Adorno became director.
Horkheimer continued to teach at the University until his retirement in the mid-1960s. He returned to America in 1954 and 1959 to lecture as a frequent visiting professor at the Univeristy of Chicago. He remained an important figure until his death in Nuremberg in 1973. He is buried at the Jewish cemetery in Bern, Switzerland.
Horkheimer developed a theory by examining his own wealth while witnessing the placement of the bourgeois and the needy. This theory embraced the future possibilities of society and was preoccupied with forces which moved society toward rational institutions that would ensure a true, free, and just life. He was convinced of the need to "examine the entire material and spiritual culture of mankind" in order to transform society as a whole.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/h/o.htm#horkheimer-max
Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist
The End of the Fairy Tale of the Customer as King
Max Horkheimer was born February 14, 1895 and was a Germn philosopher and sociologist. Horkheimer was a member of the Frankfrut school of social research. He was the only son of a wealthy orthodox Jewish family. His father pressured him and wanted him to take over the family business. Horkheimer left school at the age of 16 to work in his fathers company. In 1916 his career ended because he was drafted into WWI. After WWI ended he attended Munich University where he studied philosophy and psychology. Horkheimer moved to Frankfurt am Main where he meet Theodor Adorno. The Institute of Social Researches's directorship became vacant in 1930 Horkheimer was elected to the position he also took over the chair of social philosophy at Frankfurt University. In 1940, Horkheimer received American citizenship and moved to the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, California, where his collaboration with Adorno would yield the Dialectic of Enlightenment. In 1949, he returned to Frankfurt where the Institute for Social Research reopened in 1950. In 1953, Horkheimer stepped down from director of the Institute and took on a smaller role in the Institute, while Adorno became director.
Horkheimer continued to teach at the University until his retirement in the mid-1960s. He returned to America in 1954 and 1959 to lecture as a frequent visiting professor at the Univeristy of Chicago. He remained an important figure until his death in Nuremberg in 1973. He is buried at the Jewish cemetery in Bern, Switzerland.
Horkheimer developed a theory by examining his own wealth while witnessing the placement of the bourgeois and the needy. This theory embraced the future possibilities of society and was preoccupied with forces which moved society toward rational institutions that would ensure a true, free, and just life. He was convinced of the need to "examine the entire material and spiritual culture of mankind" in order to transform society as a whole.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/h/o.htm#horkheimer-max
Max Horkheimer 1964
Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist
The End of the Fairy Tale of the Customer as King
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