on a historical level and a personal story level and and a pure entertainment cabaret work perfectly . the scene be berlin and germany and only two year before hitler would come to total power . it be the berlin that christopher isherwood live in and write about represent poverty and drug and alcohol escapism and criminal and sleazebags and fight in the street and venereal disease and the prostitution of both sex and the desperation to escape through the film industry and the temporary escape from the harshness of life in naughty nightclub like the kit kat club and which encapsulate it all . it a bad scene and and a good example of and perhaps and why so many german felt in need of a hitler . there not a single verbal reference to hitler and and yet the presence of the grow nazi movement all around these decadent misfit be ever present in this film . but you can not blame any of these apolitical people for that . liza minelli and michael york character be so needy and so desperate just to find some personal happiness in life . they can not be bother with what go on in the big picture . except for the master of ceremony at the club represent joel grey character be a semi supernatural all see character and mocking and seem to somehow know exactly the further destruction germany head for . his scary all know grin face pop in regularly to remind u . the musical number tomorrow belongs to me be so effective an illustration of the appeal this new nazi hope hold for impoverished suffering german and and yet we have the master of ceremony evil nod grin to remind u and in retrospect and what it really lead to . just a every musical number ( aside from be so beautifully choreograph and present ) remind u of the desperation in sally bowles life and in most of germany . money make the world go around be a perfect musical number and and so illustrative of the horrendous financial state of germany at the time . joel grey raunchy two lady on the kit kat stage to the hysterical delight of the decadent crowd remind u that all sexual propriety have break down ( include in the life of the main character and now involve in a threeway with one of the few german who still have some wealth intact ) . everyone who want an example of the artistic height that film can reach should see cabaret .