In the context of a Christian right's twisted fight for the 'sanctity' of marriage we need Fassbinder to enlighten the butchery in this patriarchal cellar--klären das Schlachten in diesem patriarchalischen keller auf.
Here is marriage as searching half sandwich-board photo frame dumped on railroad station track to be crushed under steel wheel, as cracked skull of naked black American soldier dead before torn sheeted bed, as shedding plaster shards from crossbeam open to white sky in two-ton firebombed schoolhouse, as BRD freshly soaking in Holocaust complicity shame, as fidelity to capital and infidelity to affection.
In the words of Adorno, "To watch romantic comedy after Auschwitz is barbaric."
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