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         The central character of the story is Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre’s arguably most famous role), the maniac who terrorizes Berlin for months by luring and killing children. Hardly any character in film history would seem to deserve less compassion than Hans Beckert – and yet compassion to that monster is precisely the emotion Fritz Lang leads his audience to experience.
          What I noticed in the movie (mostly during the first quater) was that every where there there seem to be a crowd of people(citizens of Berlin), there seem to be chaos. From the first scene where the kids were in circle singing and the lady shouted and warned them not to sing that kind of song. Another was whenever news of a new murder case or news of the killer evolve the streets of Berlin tends to be scrambled with its anxious citizens. For example during 9:40 minutes into the movie when Elsie's death was printed in the news paper. Also there was a chaos and disrespecting of the police from the citizens when the cops were tormenting their social fun lives. At 23:40 minutes into the movie when police kept breaching local drinking spots and checking out the citizens for IDs.
           The essential message from the movie that I learned was with all this chaos and disrespecting of the police they kept on with their hard work and investigations focusing on the bright side to catch the killer that was tormenting the city. It is of a great sense to keep on with a success mind. This movie really inspired me a lot