Furthermore, I will explain how Fassbinder, who believed that positive images are elaborate utopian deceptions and [ ] prefers an educative pessimism' (Medhurst, 1996: 20), developed the melodrama genre to suit his creative needs. ... Central to this film is the way that he contrasts and contradicts one scene with the next, in order to make the spectator question what he has just accepted. ... Furthermore, both Emmi and Ali are forced to accept society's false indulgence because it is all they have and, unless society changes, are ever likely to have. ... It is also reflected i...

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