Because I knew what she sang.It was a bit from the glorious Ninth, by Ludwig van.After Dim blows a raspberry at the singer, Alex smashes him across the legs with his cane for lack of respect ("for being a bastard with no manners") for his favorite, beloved composer.Soon, the horror threat was coming from inside the farmhouse as well as outside, during a struggle for power between a resourceful, capable and calm black man (it was remarkable that the lead character was African-American!) and an impulsive, older white family man.The scenes of the Tramp find him alternating between scenes as an assembly-line factory worker (where he is literally fed by a machine and then - when the monotony overtakes him - becomes he ""food"" in the cogs and gears of another machine), a shipyard worker, a department store night watchman, an overstressed singing waiter, or an occupant in jail.One of the film""s posters proclaimed the difficult coming-of-age for the recent, aimless college graduate:This is Benjamin.