Let us think about living in a big city. We are surrounded by dozens of people, each day we pass and/or meet hundreds and we live among millions. Nevertheless we are almost alone. We hardly know the people around us and we are barely interested in them. This chosen ignorance seems quite egoistic and yet it helps us making it through the day. By shielding ourselves we keep us from being overpowered by the impressions and situations that surround us. In addition we simply cannot be affected by and interested in literally everything, can we? In Fritz Lang’s M from 1931 we are confronted with a city of no name (nevertheless it is Berlin), with four million citizens and through plot and narration we follow the events regarding the hunt for the child murderer Hans Beckert. The film does not simply follow Beckert though. We, the audience are guided by an auctorial way of narration and are therefore able to observe the plot from plenty of angles and sometimes we witness situations, wh...