“What is sacrifice?...I used to believe that people couldn't change...that all we could do was just...have as much fun as we could before it all came to an end. But now...now I don't want it to end.” /3星半
弗里茨·朗十分大胆地让一位罪恶滔天的凶犯在大银幕前为自己辩解凶犯与群众的关系变得十分微妙;朗用一个社会新闻进行了一次政治反思这是1931年的魏玛德国;按照克拉考尔的观点M同样预示了纳粹德国的崛起马克·费罗更认为结局中女人的警告表明朗和他当时的女友Thea von Harbou(后加入纳粹)对魏玛共和国民主的不信任流露出两人的意识形态(cf.Cinéma et Histoire, 1977)从以微观的社会事件对社会制度进行宏观的分析角度来看朗无疑是影史的先驱