"I believe superior men should be able to kill those that are below him."
"I have killed someone I viewed as below me."
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT. YOU HAVE TWISTED MINE OWN WORDS. WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT."
Knowing the uncomfortably popular ideals of Europe and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century makes the obvious and straight-to-the-point message of the film feel needed still, even if was a bit late to make that point by 1948.