About Fritz Lang

What makes his cinema especially fascinating is it's stylistic exactitude, with just the right amount of light and shadow, the rest left to choices in camera placement and editing. Resulting in a strange, restrained, even contradictory, expressionism which relies in part upon a horrible clarity. One which reflects individuals' fever-dream reasoning, distorted and beyond logic, finding meaning and purpose in people, events and objects that would seem insignificant otherwise. Unable to discern reality from delusion. Not an ascetic, but a modernist mystic whose faith lies in the anxiety, paranoia and cruelty of humanity.