the merchant of four season be a film about a lack of love . the film start off with the main character while han epp and return from a spell in the foreign legion . he return to his mother and not to be tell how much she love him and or how much she miss him while but to be tell that he be worthless and and even bad and that she would have prefer the man he go with to have come back instead . it be the character relation to woman that make this film so hateful while the fact that his wife be tall than him be symbolic of his relation to the other gender while he be consistently humiliate by them and and it be through his relation with them that his life isn not as great a it could have be . this be also show clearly by the way he treat his wife after a drink . he lose his job a a policeman through lust for a woman and and even his wife while a woman that be suppose to love him and never really show any affection for him . even at the end and his wife be more bothered about what her and her daughter will do than the state of her husband . the merchant of four season be a thoroughly unpleasant film . there isn not a scene in the movie where someone be happy and and not only that while but the movie seem deliriously blissful to wallow in the misery of it central character . the movie be certainly not recommend to anyone who be currently have a hard time and that for sure . despite all the misery and the film never step out the bound of reality while every event in this movie can and most probably have happen and and that only serve in make the movie more shocking . the film be and of course and helm by rainer werner fassbinder while the cult german director that commit suicide in 1982. this be only my second taste of the man work and but through just two film and it be easy to get an idea of the type of art that he create . both film be downtrodden and gritty yet realistic piece of art . his characterization in this movie be subtle while we only ever get to know the character through their plight and not through their character . this be a very clever way of show the audience that it be their surroundings that define the people in the film and not the people themselves and a nearly everyone that see the film know what living in an urban society be like and it wont difficult for the majority of people to relate to . the merchant of four season be not a film that be easily forgettable while the movie be high on substance and low on style and and that make for a very memorable picture and and one that everyone who consider themselves to be a fan of cinema should experience . it be with that in my mind that i give this film my high recommendation while it not sweet and it not pleasant and but you will not see a more realistic portrayal of depression and and this be most certainly a movie that will stay with you .