Martha (1974)

I re-watched Fassbinder's Martha today on a crappy VHS tape. It's a brutal but interesting film. What hit me this time was the significance of one of Helmut's lines. He says something to the effect of him wanting Martha all for himself, that he be Martha's entire world. What I realized when I watched the film the second time is how repressed Martha's understanding of herself is. She lives a life in which everyone expects her to be clingy and needy and she has learned to get used to the cold shoulder. (In that, the film poses question about resistance and the meaning of "willing" submission.)