Ali: Fear Eats the Soul When I was in film school at NYU, I remember being introduced to Fassbinder with The Marriage of Maria Braun, which I had to study in a more academic context. I only recently watched Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and it immediately became one of my favorites. It’s a delicious movie—the performances, the love story, the sense of tragedy, the delicate way he shoots the scenes of them sitting in the kitchen. It’s just so lovely. There’s no point in intellectualizing it; you feel the movie on a gut level.