Just FYI, this is not the best video quality on bluray. The Universum German release trumps the Criterion as they did some further restoration work to fix the stability issues.
Lovers of this film, Is the judge at the end going to give Lorre the death sentence or is it left ambiguous? I say he is going to pronounce death - the evidence being he puts on the black cap immediately before speaking. Traditionally, judges put on that cap whenever the sentence was death.
A little late, but I interpreted it as ambiguous. What you said _could_ be the case (even though we can't really see what the color of the cap truly is), but I saw the finale as a hypothetical good ending where the killer is properly judged and sentenced to prison, but whatever the case may be, it doesn't matter much to the mothers and parents whose children were killed throughout the story. Besides the letter at the beginning which I feel was just an excuse to get the police to find out, M really makes you understand and almost emphatize with the murderer, while contemporarily showing the depths to which both police and criminals go to in order to catch him, not as much because it's the right thing, but more because he interferes with their usual business. The ending doesn't provide a pristine moral solution to the whole affair, but rather a pleading resignation to a deeply flawed society. This pessimistic view that it would only become worse according to Lang ended up being exactly the case with the rise of the Nazi regime.
Amazing picture. I need to watch this one again soon!
Love these Criterion videos. More, please!
Just FYI, this is not the best video quality on bluray. The Universum German release trumps the Criterion as they did some further restoration work to fix the stability issues.
Lovers of this film,
Is the judge at the end going to give Lorre the death sentence or is it left ambiguous? I say he is going to pronounce death - the evidence being he puts on the black cap immediately before speaking. Traditionally, judges put on that cap whenever the sentence was death.
A little late, but I interpreted it as ambiguous.
What you said _could_ be the case (even though we can't really see what the color of the cap truly is), but I saw the finale as a hypothetical good ending where the killer is properly judged and sentenced to prison, but whatever the case may be, it doesn't matter much to the mothers and parents whose children were killed throughout the story.
Besides the letter at the beginning which I feel was just an excuse to get the police to find out, M really makes you understand and almost emphatize with the murderer, while contemporarily showing the depths to which both police and criminals go to in order to catch him, not as much because it's the right thing, but more because he interferes with their usual business.
The ending doesn't provide a pristine moral solution to the whole affair, but rather a pleading resignation to a deeply flawed society. This pessimistic view that it would only become worse according to Lang ended up being exactly the case with the rise of the Nazi regime.
Fuck I love this film
Mickey Mouse and a pretty lady at 0:53.
But the use of the sound that lang does its far more complex than this
5) Peter Lorre whistling
Lang did the whistling. It is a fact. So Lorre was less talented than you thought.
True this, @@eugenebelanger947 , but Lorre was probably more talented than I thought, anyway.
One of the very few films I'd like to see a remake of.
One of the very few Criterion films I have actually watched.
There is an American remake and it comes with the Criterion Blu-Ray
Joseph Losey's remake from 1951 is pretty good.
why?
Kiefer I How horrible.