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"Some words that convey , for me, the quality of the opening scene to Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre's masterpiece \"M\"  are trapped, ominous, foreboding, eerie, doomed ,. \n  \nI believe that the film captures, from its opening moments, that sense of immanent death that is inherent in all of life, and that it is complicated in a compelling way by the immediate assertion of a corruption of innocence by intentional, compulsively disordered evil . \n  \nBoth the beginning and the ending of \"M\" are shiveringly intense, dynamically engrossing  movie sequences  that epitomize the genre of film noir. It seems to me that Fritz Lang achieves this spectacular immersion in the lives of ordinary people who face extraordinary violence against what they love and cherish most the innocence of kids, and hope for a better future through children, by foreshadowing images of jail like staircases, the daily labor of hard scrabble adults, and the contrasting precarious joy and rebellion of still vital, still unwary young people. \n  \nThe visual power of in the opening, individuals who confront fear on their own, and the ending, where the power of a large community to respond to a threat to its most precious and vulnerable by the predatory unbalanced appetite for murder by one of its own, and in which the group seeks to avoid acting as a mob, but rather poses an alternative form of justice... is uncanny in its own reason and rationale for achieving cessation of the threat , justly. \n  \n  "
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