e psychological nature of the criminals and why they were lead to a life of danger. As in German expressionism, "oblique and vertical lines are used to resemble the choreography of the city tending to splinter a screen, making it restless and unstable" (Kapsis). Directors used disorienting visual schemes and skewed camera angles mostly shooting in gloomy grays, blacks and whites. These films reinforce the idea of hopelessness and confusion with a distorted chronology of events containing flashbacks and a manipulation of time. Sometimes peopl
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