Review of Human Desire (1954) by Carlos M — 21 Aug 2008

Astonishing. Human Desire talks about me, you, my father, my family and everybody.

Stands the rules in that all of us are living.

All the great movies of the history of cinema could be called HUMAN DESIRE.

Intolerance could be called Human Desire, October could be called Human Desire, A bout de Souffle, 8 1/2, 2001 Space Odyssey, even Wall-e, Human Desire is a very good title for Wall-e; all of the really great movies could be called Human Desire.

Fritz Lang's Human Desire is an extraordinary masterpiece in the use of black and white, composition, space, panoramic use, lighting and what's more important, have a real live and a real and deep human understanding of what happens to us every day.

If somebody doesn't love Human Desire, he or she cannot love living in our society with our fears, our regrets, our friends, our relationships, and our DESIRES, because in the end, all we are is a bunch of DESIRES.

I recommend to everyone, it's a marvelous movie and helped a lot to me to understand what happens all around me and what happens to myself.

The cast are simply the best, Gloria Grahamme is superb, Broderick Crawford and Glenn Ford are just the guys to act this men and I could talk about the rhythim of the music and how it helps to make the public feel the impacient of the Human Desires, like a train, never stopping our dreams and targets, and how is masterfully directed each sequence by Fritz Lang, knowing as nobody what's the real important in each actor movement, in each word.

HUMAN DESIRE, I cannot say more.