Reconstruction:Angst (1983)

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Angst starts with the camera <moving around>⁠DEF the main character as he roams around before finding and shooting his next victim:

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His first stop after release is at a diner, where he catches people <watching>⁠DEF him:

The <watching> coincides with extreme close-ups of him <eating>⁠DEF:

After the scene, he finds a cab but the suspicious driver makes him flee. He finds an isolated house. He <moves around> it before breaking in:

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Inside the house, the camera resumes <moving around> him as he scouts:

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He kills the occupants, while entertaining fantasies of making them <watch>:

❝ First the mother should visit her dead son. She should observe very carefully… how he could no longer move. ❞

❝ The old one had to stay conscious, no matter what. I wanted to strangle her after all. And the daughter should watch how her mother slowly died. ❞

❝ I made a new plan. I wanted to show the corpses to the new victims. I was convinced that I could really scare them with that. I had the idea that I would lock the new victims together with the corpses. That would scare them enormously. ❞

He then loads the bodies into the trunk of a car:

He goes out in the car, bringing the now friendly family dog with him. He gets into an accident, with people <surrounding>⁠DEF the car and <watching>, causing him to panic:

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He manages to start the car, and later finds himself back at the diner, with the same people <watching>:

The dog inside the car barks, making him go outside. He makes the dog <eat> the diner food.

Policemen arrive at the scene and <check>⁠DEF on the car, <moving around> and <surrounding> it.

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They order the killer to open the trunk, while the people at the diner, the policemen, and even the killer, all <check> on the car, with the <eating> dog inside and the corpses in the trunk:

❝ The moment was very thrilling. It really excited me. Now everybody’s going to be scared to death. Now everybody is afraid of me. I’m famous. ❞