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Kim P @RT98672688 Jun 14 I watched the entire movie in German and the emotion and nuance conveyed by the German actors was phenomenal. Great acting, direction and camera work makes for a classic. Add in the moral dilemma of punishment being sufficient if going through the court systems and this is a very compelling film indeed. On a frivolous side note, you can tell this is a very old movie because, during the police canvassing the neighborhood candy shops for clues, one store has 3 large displays of Mickey Mouse (circa 1930) and Disney did not try to sue the filmmakers into oblivion! hahaha See more G L. @RT09869090 Jun 14 Peter Lorre plays a child predator/killer who terrorizes a German city in this proto-noir. See more Jens B @Jens97 Feb 15 The first ten minutes of "M" are a prime example of suspense building and parallel editing, a standard against which all subsequent crime films must be measured. Fritz Lang's direction remains consistently inventive and meticulously crafted throughout the remaining 90 minutes. "M" begins as an almost eerie thriller about a child murderer terrorizing Berlin, then immediately shifts into a police procedural, only to morph into a heist film and finally into a kind of psychological courtroom drama. And "M" never feels overloaded, remaining consistently gripping and entertaining. Peter Lorre delivers a truly compelling performance, seamlessly transitioning between inconspicuous passerby, kind uncle, sinister monster, and tragic, tormented figure, that I couldn't help but feel sympathy during the film's final act. On top of that, the film also addresses social and media criticism, questioning who has the right to kill and when. See more Kyle M @RT77296778 Feb 6 Though it eventually downplays its thrilling mystery when chaotically silenced amid the circumstantial frenzy focus, it’s indeed a cinematically innovative classic by presentation and procedural pioneering by dimmed engaging adjacence, accumulating with an underlying psychology to solidify its impactful screenplay upon the conclusively haunting linger. (B+) See more Tan C @TanZoi Jan 13 I find it hard to think of a film more like than this one. But it goes further—It makes the protagonist disappear. I do not follow a detective, a police, or a killer. I am placed above the characters, watching how everyone changes, even slightly, within the same wave of fear. For the first time, I realized a film could ask me to stand with no one at all, and simply watch. The killer works as a narrative key. The events that seem to exist to catch him are showing how fear spreads and loses control. The film shows how panic turns innocent people into perpetrators. The movie core is social pathology, and that is why I give it five stars. Not of the killer made me scare, but of the crowd ignorance, the loss of control in collective emotion, and how quickly violence becomes justified. Yet afterward it left me uneasy. I heard almost no background noise throughout the film. I did not mind it. Each sound stayed with me. The near silence made sound part of the story. See more Liliana F @RT65639893 Aug 5 I was shocked at the sharp realism of this movie, it didn't show the children being killed, but the little girl's balloon and ball rolling around is somehow worse. This movie was terrifying and captivating, really good though, the shadowplay made Peter Lorre really frightening. See more Read all reviews

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