[center][/center] Summary (from IMDB): Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues and is a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber and pushes him to seek a promotion. His promotion may be a long shot, especially after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would
Herr Raab run amok? [center][/center] Wow, with all the excitement of March Madness, I forgot to review this movie. In fact, during March, movie watching comes second (until Kansas gets beat ). Anyway, this movie was horribly dull. This is easily the worst Fassbinder film I've seen and I hope he has none worse than this. I'm completely fine with movie about nothing, where the beauty and reality of everyday life really comes through. Herr R, though, offered nothing for me to care about. The characters weren't likable (which is fine), but they also weren't interesting and in no way commanded any of my sympathy. And after watching them for an hour, when the (spoiler:) shocking ending finally came, I did not care. In fact, I think I applauded. I do have to give Fassbinder a little credit for making something completely different from anything I've ever seen, but I would never even think about watching this again.
May 12, 2010
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