The Master

Well-made and entertaining film. Jannings is brilliant as always. Excellent cast that doesn’t act but lives its parts. Nazi, in portraying a wealthy industrialist Clausen (Jannings), emphasized their view of a society as one family with no class divisions, where capitalists and their workers have common interests and share profits, where the main cause for a capitalist should be the welfare of his workers and the well-being of his country. Doesn’t look like the majority of the present American business elite would fit this description.

Compare with Hollywood’s Marxist “revolutionary” “best” movie ever “Citizen Kane”. I am not talking about the excellent production values, mostly poor one-dimensional acting, but the story and message. Here the rich is an egoistic tyrant, unloved, lonely, pathetic and despised character. The message-the rich are miserable and bad. Sort of characters in the contemporary Hollywood’s swill “Succession”.