didn’t even realize your existence? What lengths would you go to in order to keep them in your life? In the movie The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant directed by famous German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, we explore the manipulation inherent in every relationship and the lengths to which people will go to stay with the ones they love. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is based on events in Fassbinder’s own love life. Fassbinder became infatuated actor Gunther Kaufmann who, according to