OK yes this a European film ,not a mind numb American film it has depth and layers its not ET ,its something of something of a later day Orson Wells noir B/W cinematic gem ,that echoes the 1940s but was filmed in the 80s. Voss a sort of Marlena Dietrich in the film ,she goes in and out of reality due to morphine from her keepers( a corrupt Dr)Set in 1950s Berlin( the zone) black American soldier,pop American songs on the radio. A drug induced gem of a film ,Fassbinder himself was an addict and he captures the prison of addiction in this film .The setting an aging German ex- prewar film sex symbol ,now the wars over and so is her career. shes held captive by drugs given to her in an sanitarium while the good doctor robs her blind and abuses her and others in in a blissful deranged fantasy life ,she provides in cold war Germany in the allied section .An sports reporter has a chance encounter with Voss on a train during a rain and is captivated by her sex appeal and vulnerability .he realizes the gravity of her life and the doctors evil business and the drugs .Then he tries to help her while infatuated, its black and white with high contrast glittery dream sequences, were reality becomes a dream and the starkness becomes sparkly and Voss is again a star.This movie id GREAT i certainly can not express the quality through my ramblings buy it
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rent it steal it mike spent