1. Fassbinder's Films are Made to Provoke and Unsettle, No
Never opting for simplicity over controversy, it comes as no surprise, therefore, that Fassbinder should choose to explore the issue of racism in Fear Eats the Soul (henceforth referred to as FETS) at a time when Germany was choosing to direct its pent-up anger against Gastarbeiter . ... One is Emmi's local grocer, who refuses to serve Ali because he supposedly does not speak good enough German. The irony of this scene is that the grocer himself speaks a broad Bavarian dialect of German, which can itself be difficult to understand and which is considered by many not to be good German by...
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