Cabaret

Cabaret “Cabaret suggests that society pays a price when individuals seek to escape from reality” Do you agree. Cabaret shows an interesting and tragic way that society can pay for an individuals escape from reality. The characters from the film demonstrate to the viewer how the people of Berlin suffer greatly from their attempt to escape reality. For through their own disillusions they allow the Nazi regime to come into power. As a consequence of this, society pays a price through suffering through the turmoil of the rule of the Nazi party. Sally Bowles is both an interesting and complex character. Her continuous illusion of wanting to be “a big movie star” demonstrates to the audience that she attempts to escape reality on a regular basis. Sally is so wrapped up in her own world that nothing seems to affect her. A key scene demonstrating this is when Max’s limo drives pass the Nazi bashing in the street. Bob Fosse has enhanced this seen by using freeze framing to give it a more dramatic effect and also create resent towards the Nazis. This seen also provides the viewer with an insight on Sally’s unawareness reality, nazi, brian, society, german, sally, through, nazis, film, escape, people, max, berlin, party, mc, max’s, germany, cabaret, viewer, during, although, world, price, life, leave, fraulein, constant, words, way, towards, shows, seen, scene, propaganda, pays, own, movie, just, interesting, evident, control, communists, clearly, clear, character, audience, after, uprising, turmoil, trying