It does so through the symbol of the open door. ... When the film opens, the evil in Dussander is dormant. ... Thus, Dussander's evil is linked to Todd's. ... The cat represents a victim of Dussander's evil, and thus can symbolize that evil. ... Thus, the evil of Dussander is linked to Todd. ...
Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the...
In 1929 the American Stock Market crashed, a powerful symbol of the growing depression. ... The party now needed a symbol, which Hitler created. ... He blamed the Jews for the evils of the world and accused them of corrupting everything of ethical and national value. ...
This fact plus the fact that the Allied nations needed to find a way to punish the Nazi aggressors and redress the evils they inflicted upon Europe forced them to invent a trial format which they deemed would appear as fair as could be constructed given the post-war circumstances (www.courttv.com/nuremberg/legacy.html). ... Using a trial format, which the majority of the world perceives as a symbol of justice, seemed the correct venue to obtain this closure. "The acts of Nazi Germany left no doubt that massive evil could emanate from the very summit of a nation state such a case called for an...
'The internal world on the outside. The genesis of violence and aggression.' (First slide) No horror you can imagine has not already been done by someone to somebody else. Similarly there is no horror you could perform that has not been enacted in imagination or fantasy by somebody. Man is a dangerous animal. ...
