Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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Fassbinder's Ali is the outrageous, touching story of the bumpy love affair between a sixtyish German floor washer and an inarticulate Arab mechanic barely half her age. A moving romance, a perverse social comedy, a biting drama of racial prejudice, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is all these things, although in Fassbinder''s freewheeling vision it is not always easy to tell where one leaves off and another begins. Based on Douglas Sirk''s classic melodrama, All That Heaven Allows. Winner of the International Critics Prize, Cannes Film Festival. In German with English subtitles. Rainer W. Fassbinder---West Germany---1974---94 mins.

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'But all I can see is / Red, red, red, red, red now / What am I gonna do" - Fiona Apple, "Red Red Red' What are you going to do? Be afraid. Be afraid of the Arabs moving into Germany, be afraid that you are growing older, be afraid to fall in love, be afraid of anybody not like you. Fassbinder explores all these themes in 'Ali: Fear Eats the Soul'. At its core it's a love story, but it explores who and what we fear, and how those beliefs draw people together and tear people apart. The idea of fear is expressed by the predominance of the color red in the movie. It is always present in a scene where a character is afraid of something or someone - whether the character acknowledges it or not. It may be present in a small way - like in rose bouquet, or it may surround the characters, like in a restaurant where the table clothes, curtains, and lighting alert the viewer that fear overwhelms everyone. Notice where the color red is placed in relation to the characters, or notice how the color red bathes the screen at the end of a scene. Also notice when the color red is not used. Everything in life is not scary. Fear is a man made construct that Fassbinder expresses brilliantly.

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