Analyzing Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In A Year Of 13 Moon

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “In A Year of 13 Moons” was yet another risk taking film to produce and, as an audience member, watch. The film was released in 1978 so the fact that it has a protagonist, who was a cross dresser, really set this film apart. Usually films with this theme will make it very comedic, however Fassbinder uses lots of visual to express the emotion, and takes audience members on this journey to look deep into the characters. There were one scene when the character Erwin, played by Volker Spengler, was giving dialogue however while walking through a slaughterhouse. This scene was hard to watch but in fact was needed because what he was saying had a connection to every moment in the slaughterhouse. Fassbinder enjoys using