Lang's M, has many stylistic qualities of the Noir genre. The use of a grey color palette, lighting, lack of background music, to name only a few. From the first few seconds of the films start you got the sense that there was a dangerous person in the area and he or she preyed on children. The song the children were singing made that evident, and it made the adult uneasy. In Noir films, inanimate are extremely important in filing in the blanks of the story. In this case, the clock on the wall that seems to be the sound of hope and happiness for a woman that has only work to look forward to in
