All right, I probably have a lot of skewed perspective here, but I was put up to this film during an audition for Chicago, and I expected something similar to said musical. When I came in with the Emcee, whom I hated from the moment I saw him, my expectations about this film were shattered. Not in a good way. For one thing, the film has too much going on. I count at least four love stories, a Nazi evasion plot, and a segment on writing pornography. The film is a combination of too many stories, each of them good in their own right, but jammed together they simply don't work.
For another thing, the timeframe of the film keeps jumping around. It stays in 1932 throughout, or appears to anyway, but there seems to be several weeks of jumps where there is no exposition. No "Three Weeks Later" subtitle or anything else like that. You just have to infer it on your own.
Again, I hated the Emcee from the moment I saw him. His voice grated on my hearing-aid requiring ears, he looked absolutely disgusting, and every musical number except for the finale was downright terrible. Most of them seemed to come out of nowhere "Money Money" and "Two Women" being the worst offenders, in my mind.
That said, the acting and writing in this film were wonderful, as well as the finale song, Cabaret. They still don't make up for an inherently flawed film.
Film Cabaret is a Terrible Movie.
All right, I probably have a lot of skewed perspective here, but I was put up to this film during an audition for Chicago, and I expected something similar to said musical. When I came in with the Emcee, whom I hated from the moment I saw him, my expectations about this film were shattered. Not in a good way. For one thing, the film has too much going on. I count at least four love stories, a Nazi evasion plot, and a segment on writing pornography. The film is a combination of too many stories, each of them good in their own right, but jammed together they simply don't work.
For another thing, the timeframe of the film keeps jumping around. It stays in 1932 throughout, or appears to anyway, but there seems to be several weeks of jumps where there is no exposition. No "Three Weeks Later" subtitle or anything else like that. You just have to infer it on your own.
Again, I hated the Emcee from the moment I saw him. His voice grated on my hearing-aid requiring ears, he looked absolutely disgusting, and every musical number except for the finale was downright terrible. Most of them seemed to come out of nowhere "Money Money" and "Two Women" being the worst offenders, in my mind.
That said, the acting and writing in this film were wonderful, as well as the finale song, Cabaret. They still don't make up for an inherently flawed film.