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Well, you have to suspend belief just a bit. For example, the chest buster running away obviously looked like a cheap 1950's arcade racing horse on rails, and was embarassing. But otherwise, given the technology at the time, and especially the script, it is pretty awesome. I think Bubbathegut is in troll mode. Bubbathegut, I now think that you are trolling. If you admit to overanalysing, Bubbathegut, then maybe you should back off. I agree. I agree. I don't get it. This movie is a confused mess, especially in the last part which makes no sense at all. Yes "flat" is the word. Even a cold-hearted Himmler type would have more colour and "harmonics" in his speech. A very similar event also happened to me in Germany. The only difference isthat it occurred 30 years after the war. I was riding with two Germans in a car as a hitchhiker, and after several minutes of conversation one said to me that he could not put his finger on what part of Germany I came from, and that he thought he distinguished a very slight French accent. I was born in Montreal, spoke German with my mother until the age of five, then went to French school, picked up English from my mother's friends. I can "fake" a Berliner accent for about 15 seconds, but then a "je ne sais quoi" becomes "spuerbar", and the SS would shoot me. Yes, there is something a bit off in Fassbinder's accent, it seems to be lacking in the Umgangssprache, in the colloquial; it's very hard to imitate as it is injected with deep emotional colours. View all replies >