Tonight's movie has been 'The Testament of Dr Mabuse'. The people are virtually puppet-like, and the more hollow they are, the more believable. The likeable police commissioner seems to belong in an entirely different film, as he is humane, irascible, an 'instinctive' copper. Mabuse's sheer drive, undiluted motive is far too powerful to permit anything as presumptuous as a personality among the criminal gang or the flunkies, turnkeys, petty officials and guards who populate the film. Mabuse's plotting is the plot. The fact of a relentless, undead destructive force is the engine and chassis of the film, and it's as compelling as hell.
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