These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) (1974) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder transposes All That Heaven Allows into contemporary Germany with Rock Hudson's Thoreau-esque man of the soil recast as a Moroccan "guest worker". On arrival in the United States he soon changed his German name. Tarantino paid homage to Sirk and his melodramatic style in Pulp Fiction when character Vincent Vega at a '50s-themed restaurant orders the "Douglas Sirk steak" cooked "bloody as hell.