Cabaret

                              

The film Cabaret gave me a better understanding of live and times in the 20s in Berlin. Things that stuck out to me were:

• I LOVE the fact that everyone is different ages, shapes and sizes but are still described as beautiful - "Even the orchestra are beautiful!" There are dancers with rolls and large butch looking female musicians but they're all there, they're all dressed up to the nines and they're all FABULOUS.
•  Confidence exudes from EVERYBODY involved in the cabaret. They are all completely confident in they're own skin which in itself is beautiful. "Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire!"
• The lack of judgement shown to these people through the film. And when Sally is judged by Natalia for sleeping with lots of men she brushes it off and doesn't really let it bother her. There is more judgement shown to the Nazis than the performers.
• The fashion is amazing and very similar to that of Chicago, but its more raw and more unpolished because the scene is a lot more seedy and underground in Berlin.
• The Era; because the film was made in the 70s you can see a lot of 70s influences creeping in to the original 20s style. The colour scheme and use of denim, and the shapes and materials of a lot of the clothes are very 70s.
• Sally's childlike facial expressions. She was very bouncy and childlike and excitable and o me this reflects on her being carefree and having no worries. A child never worries what others will think of them, and neither does she.

 The one thing that really bugged me throughout the film was Sally's nails. She is always described in literature and other remakes as having chipped emerald green nails. Her nails were emerald green but they were ALWAYS perfectly manicured. i felt this was one if the things that really references her faux-glam lifestyle and yet the stylists completely missed out on it.