Cabaret was the only major film of the period to consider the flip side of political awareness, detailing the allure of decadence and self-indulgence, and the abnegation of social and political responsibility in the face of looming catastrophe, a denial which nonetheless becomes an upbeat philosophy in the film’s crowning metaphor: “Life is a cabaret.”

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