Fox and His Friends 1975 ‘Faustrecht der Freiheit’ Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Peter Chatel Karlheinz Böhm Adrian Hoven Christiane Maybach Harry Baer Rudolf Lenz Kurt Raab Karl Scheydt Brigitte Mira Barbara Valentin Walter Sedlmayr Peter Kern Bruce Low Marquard Bohm Evelyn Künneke Elma Karlowa Lilo Pempeit Ingrid Caven Ulla Jacobsson Hark Bohm Irm Hermann El Hedi ben Salem
O Direito do Mais Forte, Frihedens knytnæve, La ley del más fuerte, Vahvemman oikeus, Le droit du plus fort, A szabadság ököljoga, Il diritto del più forte, O Direito do Mais Forte à Liberdade, Özgürlügün zorbalik hakki
The tragic trajectory of Fox is evident from the start, though the exact details of his path are worth watching play out. This is a bleak portrait of a man unable to control his life, of the tragedy of being a misfit, of the power of money and love to destroy and blind and confuse. Fassbinder's awkward fool Fox bumbles through his life in a manner Terry Pratchett would call "gormless," and his helplessness is amplified by being a sort of fish-out-of-water socially. It is an indictment of class, a scathing sneer at the divisiveness of financial strata and the shifting mores between them.
At the same time, Fox is shown to be one of the few genuine people in…
I love any sad gay film honestly. This one kind of dragged a little for me in the middle but really picked up in the end. It started as kinda funny and sweet but then by the end I was just so,,,, sad :(
Its just... society really sucks man. Money sucks. People suck. Classism sucks. Homophobia sucks. Can you tell I’m sad tonight lol
They say misery loves company, but Fassbinder knows the real truth is that companies love misery. Plays a downright insane tonal gambit, which is to say, this starts as an outright goofy comedy that the acid of capital slowly starts to eat away at until not even the black, corrupted heart is left. Maybe the greatest movie ever made about the economy? You'd think we'd have outgrown this.
Its funny how cruel the world can be. Even when against all odds you lie and cheat your way to success it finds a way to kick you in the nuts somehow even harder then it did before you were successful. That's what I feel Rainer Fassbender is trying to convay in his theatrical direction and in his charmingly buffoonish performance that's so full of heart and kindness that its devastating and unsurprising what happens to him. I'm still shakeing this one out in my head so I'm just gonna end it on a dam that was a good movie.
This is the first entry in Fassvember! I’d never seen this before and it might be one of RWF’s best. It goes all over the place! It starts out at a circus sideshow and there are scenes in gay bars, a bunch of rich people’s homes, a factory, gay cruising spots, a flower shop, fancy restaurants, a weird nude mud bath, and it even takes a detour in Marrakech. Yeah, there are some major statements about exploitation, capitalism, class, even religion, but it’s all built around the framework of a classic Hollywood-style culture clash romance - there’s even a scene where the hoity-toity Eugen kicks Franz under the table at dinner after he makes a minor faux pas during a conversation about Stravinsky.
I love any sad gay film honestly. This one kind of dragged a little for me in the middle but really picked up in the end. It started as kinda funny and sweet but then by the end I was just so,,,, sad :(
Its just... society really sucks man. Money sucks. People suck. Classism sucks. Homophobia sucks. Can you tell I’m sad tonight lol
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