Cabaret (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just think:

Your life and my life...

solved in one fell swoop.

And all by the baby!

I guess it's just about the most significant baby the world

has ever known...

since Jesus.

It'll be a most strange and extraordinary baby,

won't it?

~(Sally Bowles)~

Cabaret (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing Nazi Party.

Directer Bob Fosse described the film as "not a copy of the Broadway musical, but a drama with music.  Obviously this is not 'My Fair Lady.'"

"This is a story about a very real and dark time.  It is a modern-day nightmare in song and dance."

Plot

In 1931 Berlin, American artist Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new arrival in the city, Brian Roberts (Michael York), moves into Sally's boarding house. A reserved English academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate in Philosophy. Sally unsuccessfully tries to seduce Brian and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells Sally that on three previous occasions he has tried to have physical relationships with women, all of which have failed. The unlikely pair become friends, and Brian is witness to Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. Later in the film, Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations, and Brian and Sally conclude with irony that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls."

Sally befriends Maximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), a rich playboy baron who takes her and Brian to his country estate. It becomes ambiguous which of the duo Max is seducing, epitomized by a scene in which the three dance intimately together in a wine-induced reverie. After a sexual experience with Brian, Max loses interest in the two, and departs for Argentina. When Sally triumphantly tells Brian that she slept with Max, Brian begins to laugh and reveals that he slept with Max as well. After the ensuing argument, Brian storms off and picks a fight with a group of Nazis, who beat him senseless. Brian and Sally make up in their rooming house, where Sally reveals that Max left them an envelope of money.

Later on, Sally finds out that she's pregnant and is unsure whether Brian or Max is the father. Brian offers to marry her and take her back to his university life in Cambridge. After a scene that strongly hints Sally prefers the life of a singer to the life of a mother and housewife, she proceeds with an abortion. When Brian confronts her, she shares her fears and the two reach an understanding. The film ends with Brian departing for England by train, and Sally continuing her life in Berlin, singing "Cabaret" to a highly appreciative audience.

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W.W.J.D.?

What would Jesus have done,

having the same ambition as Sally Bowles, 

had he conceived

a

child?

Would he have made the same choices

that ended in

his

Crucifixion?

***

Remember an incident as a child, my sister (the oldest) upsetting me, claiming I was a mistake;

my mother standing nearby smiling as we argued.

How my sister tried getting Mother and Dad to take me back to the hospital 
because 
she wanted a baby sister instead.

Upon hearing this,

my Mother then saying while still smiling:
 

 

"You almost got one!"

No wonder I refused to breast feed.
 

Anyway,

I have a birthday coming up tomorrow.