... . So we must conclude that it is Fassbinder's personal choice not to afford the spectator such an idyllic image of "normality-. The effects that this melange of melodrama and Brechtian mechanisms sparks off in the audience are twofold. On the one hand, the melodrama plays on the audience's emotions, ... and the relief is equally great when Fassbinder finally decides to cut and show us the characters' verbal and physical reaction to the news. And due to what has been termed the hierarchy of oppression' (Tebbutt, 1998: 132), i.e. a hierarchy in which, as a Moroccan, Ali is definitely at t...

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