Although the title of "Ali Fear Eats the Soul" sounds to maintain the consistent gray tone of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in fact, this film is a rare warm work. The narrative is clear and easy to understand, the form is popular and complete, and the first part is even warm and touching, full of human care. But the director's work, Ali Fear Eats the Soul, is known for its brutal, so-called beauty, which is almost suffocatingly sad. The ugly faces on the screen, the coldness and fear in the eyes, and the infinite depression in the heart cannot be released.
In the film, the social status of the old cleaner Aimi and the foreign worker Ali reduces the social attributes of the characters from the superfluous elements due to their status, thus avoiding the possibility of excessive inner scruples and struggles. This makes the characters more stateful and tenacious, which invisibly strengthens the emotional instinct of the development of the relationship between the two. Therefore, the process of Ami and Ali from meeting each other and falling in love does not require more writing and is simple and natural. Obviously, this is not the case for people with social status and complex hearts.
