I understand where Jazzy11 is coming from with the Schoenberg reference, as I had, at several points during the film, noticed that it had a certain thoroughly modern, narrative dissonance which at times was uncomfortable but was always challenging. I also found the metastructure of this epic work can be seen abstractedly as a simple meditation on neo-materialism that hints at man's alienation, not in the dogmatic Engels-Marxist economic sense, but in terms of the post-modern idea of man's alienation from place, in this case Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
A true masterpiece!
A true masterpiece!