Every time I watch this movie, I see something new. It's like a sad chrysanthemum. This time I noticed the little Nazi boy getting thrown out of the club for pan-handling by the owner. Later on in the movie, he comes back with his friends and they beat the shit out of the old man and leave him for dead.This is the most depressing musical ever. Even minus the Nazis, it's still the story of two people looking for happiness and terrified of actually finding it.
Brian (Michael York) is a Cambridge boy just arrived in Weimar Berlin. He is struggling as an English tutor in order to finish his thesis when he meets cabaret singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), an American practically brimming with joie de vivre. Together, they manage to navigate the changing politics and atmosphere of Germany from insouciant aristocrats to the backlash against Jewish residents.
Plus, Fosse dancers!
"Mein Herr" is easily the best number in the whole movie, if only because it doesn't have Joel Grey's creepster Emcee in it.
I know this isn't a nominee for this year, but it won eight Oscars the year it came out, so there's that.
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