Cabaret works on all levels

Cabaret is an exuberant film about performance and expression on many levels, and about performance in a version of reality, in contrast to understanding and absorbing reality in all its complexity and contradiction, and danger. Whether being a love story, musical or message, cabaret works on all levels.

As a love story, Cabaret gradually caters the needs of Sally, Brian, Max, Natalia and Fritz throughout the film. Although the relationships between Sally, Brian and Max are not based completely on love, Natalia and Fritz depend on love for their relationship to succeed.

Completely detached and unaware of the rising tide of Nazism, a capricious American Sally Bowles performs nightly at the sleazy Kit Kat Club. Enthralled by the ?divine decadence? surrounding her she wears bizarre makeup and impossibly theatrical clothes, continually deluded by her ambition of attracting a movie producer who will shoot her to instant stardom.

Brian Roberts, an aspiring writer, has come to Berlin to improve his German and hopefully make a few marks on the side by teaching English. An intermediate and unlikely understanding springs up between Sally and Brian when

The Cabaret numbers; Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, Money, Two Ladies, If you could see her through my eyes, The Can-Can, and Life is a Cabaret, also sends a message out my commenting on the events unfolding on the screen.

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