I just watched "M", that I'd not seen in many years......the exquisite new prints of the film, with cleaned-up audio, certainly arrested my attentions......I thought of 'NOW'......as the Establishment becomes fixated on outing specific 'evil' surrogates, drawing attention to the pervasiveness of the criminality that pervades Society, in general, ritual sacrifices must appease the Hoi Polloi and negate its deep-seated guilt....... Die Neue Sachlichkeit's 'realism', expressed in circles, squares, arrows and lines......Criminals are just exaggerations of Everyman's latent intentionality.......Justice is the moral atonement of the righteous......I thought of the saga of Charles Manson...I thought of Trumpworld.....about compulsion and intent......The 'frame' from the movie, that persists in my memory, is the scene in which a book store's street window display is of a massive display of cutlery, flatware and folding knives, moving to a bookstore window in which a spinning hypnosis wheel and a moving, downward-pointing arrow draw the viewers' attention to, then away from the books......