WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?: An Underrated Film from Young Fassbinder

The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder are consistent in their distaste for everything held dear by the West German bourgeoisie, including the institution of marriage, the desire to climb the corporate ladder, and the obsession with the materialistic trappings that can be acquired with higher wages. That Fassbinder himself came from a bourgeois family in Munich and even married at one point doesn’t discount his strong opinions on these issues;

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