Status Updates From Underworld

The title has suddenly shown up three times: in German in the Eisenstein film title (which seems to be apocryphal), in the brief allusion to the 1927 gangster film (which is IMDB-confirmed as real), and in a p.466 reference that seems casual but of course is not.

“All Eisenstein wants you to see, in the end, are the contradictions of being. You look at the faces on the screen and you see the mutilated yearning, the inner divisions of people and systems, and how forces will clash and fasten, compelling the swerve from evenness that marks a thing lastingly.”