The chaotic depravity of the urban environment is dangerous enough to bring a bourgeois man to the brink of disaster in Karl Grune’s The Street, when he flees the boredom of his comfortable home and wife for the lure of the city lights. The street, both ominous and tempting, is seen encroaching on his private space when its blinking and tantalizing lights flicker on his ceiling, luring him away from the safety of the home. Grune uses light, darkness and moving shadows to create a sense of heightened reality in depicting street life, while the man’s own menacing hallucinations lend a sense of foreboding to the action.