As riveting as it is intellectually demanding. And that's just by 2001 standards-- Fritz Lang directed this film, his first with sound-- in 1931, when hardly anyone knew how to integrate dialogue into a previously silent art form, and in the midst of the Nazi uprising at the same time.
The plot is taught and tense, waiting to find out what's going to happen next, or which side is going to make the next move. Moreso when you realize that Lang was the first ever to do this-- previous IMDB comments such as "we've seen this all before" show ignorance, because in 1931, NO ONE had seen this before. No one had DONE this before.
The Nazi regime wanted to ban this film because they suspected-- correctly-- that the film was talking about them. Seventy years later, its questions of good vs. evil are still equally as relevant, or else you weren't paying attention.
Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" has never been more powerful.
The plot is taught and tense, waiting to find out what's going to happen next, or which side is going to make the next move. Moreso when you realize that Lang was the first ever to do this-- previous IMDB comments such as "we've seen this all before" show ignorance, because in 1931, NO ONE had seen this before. No one had DONE this before.
The Nazi regime wanted to ban this film because they suspected-- correctly-- that the film was talking about them. Seventy years later, its questions of good vs. evil are still equally as relevant, or else you weren't paying attention.
Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" has never been more powerful.