INTEPRETATIONS, INTEPRETATIVE CONTESTS

Murderers Among Us (Das Lied ist aus, by Ivan Faktor)

In the film The Song is Over (Das Lied ist aus), Ivan Faktor uses the soundtrack of Lang’s film M and combines it with shots of Osijek in ruins, in order to invoke the terror that aroused Lang’s presentation of child killer. Raising the issue of memories (with the inserts from R. Scott’s Blade Runner), the author suggests that the scariest memories are hard to believe in.

Faktor’s work correlates the two themes into a firm, impressive whole, in which individual segments motivate each other, and rhetorically accentuate each other’s impact. The final idea is that an irrational evil lurks behind the reality shown in The Song is Over so that it can easily cross the line that should prevent it from destroying and killing children.

Nikica Gilić