Fly Away

Director: Fritz Lang

Actors: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut

wh-Y-rate: ***

This movie was quite...scary and creepy. I didn't really like this movie. This movie is one of the films that was created in German Expressionism (20's-30's). German Expressionism's theme was "reality is distorted with hope of finding inner truth" and was oppositie of realism and/or naturalism.

This film starts out with children chanting while playing jumprope or something in front of their apartment and the chant says, "Just you wait, it won't be long. the man in black will soon be here," foreshadowing the plot of the movie. Soon "the man in black"--black because he himself isn't shown first but his shadow is shown first and his shadow is black--appears in front of a little girl, buys her a balloon, and leads her to a place where no one is visible...

When the murder's face is first shown, the first thought that came to my mind was, "he looks like a little kid". It seemed like he had no index finger on his left hand, too. He didn't show his face, which kind of meant like he was "hiding" in metaphorical sense. There is always the piercing sound of whistle when the murderer appears, and builds up suspense. I just looked at one of my sheets, and found that I wrote "the suspense is killing me". hahaha. But true, the suspense in this movie was so intense...

This movie was interesting...it was a kind of films that I wouldn't have had a chance of seeing on my own.