The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is a film about a woman who spends a night wotha terrorist and then finds herself the victim of the police and harassed by the press until she takes violent action. She becomes a murderess because her honor is destroyed by the tabloid press and this is something which she tries to regain throughout the film. What she once called life is no more, not to mention taht the …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…seems like murder in self defense because evn though the press didn't kill Katharina they slowly destroyed everything she stood for and everything she had built her life around which is worse. To my knowledge Von Trotta and Schlondorff are trying to say that as a result of everything which their society has put them through the women in postwar Germany have been forced to change their ways and take action into their own hands.