Fritz Lang
In Our Time: Culture
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Film Review: Elsie's Death
Elsie's death is actually depicted through a set of objects, you know, the empty chair at the kitchen table. And their powerful image is that interestingly, as a spectator, keep us in a somehow distached, detached, observational position. So following the death immediately is that we don't return ever to the children or the mothers until the very last shot of the film.
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