Monday, September 9, 2013
M
The Film M is to some a horror film and others a drama. I do understand how one could see it as a horror film because of the murder of the children, but the lack of blood and guts is enough to make me fall to the melodrama side. The back and forth of the police men arguing in the investigation and even the soundtrack staying rather slow, it is very compelling to think that it is very dramatic. When someone thinks about a horror film they may recall the horrific sight of a limb being sawn off or a man being shot repeatedly, not how the first murder we see is depicted. A girls balloon fly away and a ball roll from the tree. The slow pace of how the plot unfolds takes away the scare factor and leaves you thinking about what is unfolding before you. When they put the murderer on trial in their makeshift court it is clearly more dramatic with the man going on about his illness than the way he went about the murders. He is so ill he can't even remember what he did to the poor girls, he just blacked out before he lost control not from the gore. So this being my evidence I stand with my claim of M being a melodrama.
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I agree with your description of M as a melodrama. The lack of any gore makes it harder to see it as a horror. The fact that there is little to know scare factor illustrates the fact that you would be grasping at straws to try and call it much more than a suspense film.
ReplyDeletewhen i think of a horror film i think of insidious or some sort of movie that leaves you shivering under the sheets and leaving all the lights in your house on. The kind of film that makes going into the basement a ridiculous idea. M is none of those things. so melodrama it is!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with this post, because generally I avoid horror films at all costs, but never found myself wanting to turn off the movie while I watched 'M,' there was nothing that was really terrifying. There was only a storyline that proved to be incredibly unsettling, but definitely not any horrifying scenes. Melodrama all the way.
ReplyDeleteI like how you pointed out specifics of how we know its murder simply by a ball rolling not physically seeing the act itself. It does point to more melodramatic rather than horror.
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