This particular punchline connects as hard as a blow to the back of the head. Unexplained, out of the blue, nagging evil often lurks inside the most clean-cut and unassuming of people.
Fassbinder's remarkable, slow burn meditation about unspoken alienation is equal measures prosaic and horrifying. It creeps up on you in the most excruciatingly uneventful of ways, testing your patience but ultimately forcing you to reassess everything you've watched by the time you arrive at its grippingly clinical, paralyzing finale. Fassbinder allows you to suspect, little by little, that something isn't right in the mind of Herr R.
His camera constantly teases the elephant in the room…. Review by Sally Jane Black. A fairly bleak and scathing look at the banality of middle class life and the darkness it harbors. Are you ready for your close up Kurt Raab? It might not be Mr. DeMille who is calling for you but Herr Fassbinder is looking your way. Well, kind of. And the fingers that he uses to hold his cigarette are pointing in your general direction.
Or maybe they are just flicking an ash. But hold your head up high, Kurt. I had an entire capsule for this thought out in my head, but then I read that Fassbinder really didn't have much to do with this at all -- the script was mostly improvised, and he only visited the set once or twice. Even then, this still fits nicely into his filmography, almost feeling more like the 16mm document of a Merchant of Four Seasons workshop than the tightly scripted films that preceded it. Not easy to sit through, not simple to keep yourself going through the excruciatingly mundane world of Herr R.
It creeps up on you - through it's boredom, through it's unique sound design - and Herr R. The director duo's vision is undeniable and I, for one, am ready to ignore if Fassbinder had much to do with the film.
The ending is so unpredictable that it will put the entire 85 minutes into perspective, and will make you wonder as an IMDb reviewer correctly says about….
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The next morning he is found hanged. The theme of the ordinary man destroyed by his inablity to cope with modern life was a favorite of Fassbinder's. The question asked by the film's title remains unanswered, yet it is superficially clear why Herr R.
Read more Top review. Co-directed by the young Fassbinder then only 25 years old with his friend and producer Michael Fengler, 'Herr R. Here, in opposition to his more characteristically considered style, a shaky hand-held camera eavesdrops on the eponymous Herr R. Long takes predominate and we are also let into the life of Herr R. Fassbinder keeps the tension tightly wound throughout and it is this knowing sense of what to show and when to withhold that gives the greatest indication that this is the work of a man who was to become one of Europe's greatest film-makers since Ingmar Bergman.
No doubt, many will find the extreme sense of realism and boredom too oppressive but 'Herr R. Details Edit. Release date November 17, United States. West Germany. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? Box office Edit. Budget DEM , estimated. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 28 minutes. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. Amok ? See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. See the full list. The Rise of Will Smith.
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