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Jetzt, im antlitz des Todes, sah ich die Angst von der Albrecht sprach.

Doch der Ausdruck von Schuld lag schwerer auf seinen Zügen.

Ich hätte neben ihm knien sollen, im Schnee, neben dem sterbenden Jungen.

Jetzt bin ich allein. Meine Finger sind blau.

why is he like that

For those playing along at home, the list:

Rope 1948 Compulsion 1959 The Face of Fear 1990 Swoon 1992 Scream 1996 Murder by Numbers 2002 Funny Games (US version, 2007)

So, terrible confession: I haven't seen all of them so I can't really offer much insight in the way of reviews/comparison. Really, Rope is a classic for a reason (in terms of the film-making aspects alone), but I can't say how it stands up to Compulsion bc I haven't seen that one yet.

If you're up for reading some academic work, you might find this book/chapter interesting: Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in American Theater - Ch. 2 Queer Justice

The rest of the movies are on my watchlist, and I will view when I find a way to watch them (other than Scream, which...who hasn't seen that one). I'm very interested in Swoon, from this description alone:

One of the most daring works to emerge from the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Swoon offers a radical, revisionist perspective on the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case. Channeling the spirits of Dreyer, Bresson, and Jean Genet, director Tom Kalin challenges viewers to identify with two of the most notorious killers of the 20th century, their crime—the Nietzsche-influenced thrill killing of a schoolboy in 1920s Chicago—and punishment recounted in ghostly black and white by Ellen Kuras. Throughout, Kalin cannily deconstructs the ways in which Leopold and Loeb’s homosexuality has been historically sensationalized and demonized—a provocative analogy for queer persecution in the AIDS era.