cabaret be a dazzling combination of music and drama and and social commentary . cabaret be more than a musical . it be tough and satirical and acrid and and provoke . none of the sweetness of rodgers and hammerstein and none of the joyous celebration of life of the sound of music . cabaret be an exciting place for music . cabaret be the first musical to exploit the notion that life be fascinate because it be ambiguous . cabaret us music in an exciting new way . his character do not disintegrate into song to express their emotion . rather and a sleazy night club become a place where satirical comment on the life and problem of these character be make in striking and entertaining and and often in ferocious dance and song . cabaret be only one of three major element that remain separate in the film and then gradually and inexorably become melt into one . these element be the music of the cabaret and the life of the principal character and and the world outside of their narrow domain . director bob fosse capture the atmosphere and turmoil of the time and place and just before hitler rise to power and present a multifaceted portrait of a hedonistic and increasingly dangerous society and in which every brushstroke be significant and influential . the cast and head by liza minnelli a an american cabaret star and michael york a the shy englishman suffer with the fact that he doesn not like girl and perfectly embody the character catch up in the current of the tale . the film begin with an amorphous view of berlin kit kat club in 1930s germany and and a the view become clear and we meet the nightclub deprave customer and it host and the charming paint emcee and who sing willkommen a the cabaret girl play their musical instrument . at this moment and the kit kat club show a world unconcerned with event . sally be a citizen of this world and deliberately shock and cheerfully promiscuous and a lose child masquerade a a seductive woman . away from the nightclub and sally play the lead role in a fantasy of her own imagination . speak almost entirely in emotional hyperbole and she regard herself a a strange and extraordinary person . she take brian under her wing and one day introduce him to helmut griem and a rich and suave and divinely sexy baron with whom they both have affair . everyone become part of her free world represent an unseen father who be indifferent to her while and marisa berenson and a young serious jewish department store heiress who be feverishly court by an opportunistic and a fortune hunter and call fritz wendel ( fritz wepper ) . at first sally insulated life bear little relation to the event propel germany toward it bleak destiny . gradually and however and the cabaret become more threaten while the master of ceremony provide the historical and social theme throughout his song . ( he and sally sing money make the world go round ) . later he sing a stimulating two lady about the joy of a ménage à trois . he even dance with a girl in a gorilla costume and singing if you could see her add in a confidential whisper and if you could see her through my eye and she wouldn not look jewish at all . only once do the film leave the nightclub for a musical number in an outdoor café and and then it be for one of the film most haunting scene and where a young boy begin to sing tomorrow belongs to me . while fosse camera pan down to reveal his sinister insignia . start to sing along with patriotic passion . it be a sequence of frighten beauty and make even more memorable by several quick shot of an elderly man and silently sit on a table . disapprove the song . when the pathetic master of ceremony tell u once again that life be beautiful and the kit kat girls break into a reprise of willkommen and the irony be devastate . the final shot of the grow of nazi in the audience reinforce the menace of the political horror and and turn the cabaret into a daring place of divert escapism . a sally and liza minnelli be entirely a creature of cabaret . she sing the title song in a number of stunning effectiveness . the song sum up the film sardonic view . minnelli be require to go from a girl of easy virtue proclaim that certain cigarette make her go wildly sensual to a helpless person sob maybe i be . just nothing . but she manage to control the connection of mood with style and sensitivity . in one song and maybe this time and she be too close to her mother judy garland . a the two possess a similar intensity and warm vibrato and the blend of pathos and humor and and an over eagerness to communicate with their audience . cabaret be not unforgettable . it be great entertainment and a dare piece of divert escapism that hopefully will revitalize a tired form .