... is another element that has affected Fassbinder in this film. Through lingering shots (freeze-framing) and protracted silences, he again gives the spectator time to take a viewpoint on the action and obliges them to concentrate on the faces of the characters. If you take Emmi's announcement of her engagement as an example, the camera focuses and freezes on each of her children's faces in turn, forcing ... when Ali is taken ill, writhing on the ground as a burst stomach ulcer torments him. At the hospital, the doctor declares that this is a common illness among Gastarbeiter and results f...

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