Fassbinder, Rainer Werner - Jan Dawson
JAN DAWSON
[The Third Generation is Fassbinder's] most violently outspoken film yet, and incidentally the first from Germany … to represent fictional terrorists on the screen. Expanding into a high-camp melodrama the idea of collective responsibility underlying his Germany in Autumn episode, Fassbinder disregards the politically rigidified idea of terrorists as either demons or martyrs; and instead locates the colourful members of his terrorist cell … at the centre of a complex, wheels-within-wheels social machine governed only by the laws of greed, profit, cross and double-cross….
[In] Fassbinder's angry, and only superficially cynical, apocalyptic vision, there are no right or left, no good or bad guys….
The Third Generation is not the first Fassbinder film to suggest a kinship between cops and outlaws (this motif ran through his earliest thrillers, as through many of the films noirs which inspired them)…. But it...
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