Not much on a story or acting level (jealous man who works in barber/spa shop, in love w/co- worker, ends up killing the man who wins the love of his obsession, later escapes from jail to get her as well).
But very impressive in it's use of expressionist photography and editing. The look is like much later film noir, but often better (including a little Scorsese-esque fast push in), and the editing (and story structure) is very brave; from the flashback structure of the whole story, to the super fast cutting in two sequences (including the
insertion on a single red frame) that makes most modern editing look safe and dull by comparison.
Well worth a look for the beautiful, ahead-of-it's-time techniques alone.
But very impressive in it's use of expressionist photography and editing. The look is like much later film noir, but often better (including a little Scorsese-esque fast push in), and the editing (and story structure) is very brave; from the flashback structure of the whole story, to the super fast cutting in two sequences (including the
insertion on a single red frame) that makes most modern editing look safe and dull by comparison.
Well worth a look for the beautiful, ahead-of-it's-time techniques alone.