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A great tribute to a great film
Calista 2022-04-20 09:01:38
Goodbye Lenin. Tribute to many classics: 2001 A Space Odyssey 'A Clockwork Orange' Amelie. . . A great movie, even if it is only 120 minutes long, even if the aesthetic enjoyment brought by the expression technique is thrown away, it still adds so much to us that it is difficult to fully bear it all at once. The nostalgia of the East Germans after the fall of the wall, the contrasting changes in people's life and thinking before and after the switch between socialism and capitalism, the protagonist's dissatisfaction with the above two ideologies and reflections on utopia, the past generation's adherence to ideals and beliefs has a huge impact on society. Not getting the respect it deserves after the change, etc. All these personal sufferings of life drifting in the torrent of history, the director portrays the family affection that is not inferior to "Beautiful Life" throughout. In the context of big brother is watching u, the mother could not take her child to escape from East Germany with her husband, so she gave up her freedom and pretended to love East Germany in order to save her family. After the wall fell, the mother woke up from a coma. The son was worried that the mother who "loved the motherland" would not be able to accept the reality that East Germany was no longer there. The whole film is stoic but heart-warming, and it is worth spending a lifetime thinking about it.
Extended Reading
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Mariela 2022-03-26 09:01:04
"The country my mother left was what she believed in, and we kept this country, that belief, until the very end of her life. In my memory, this country will always be linked to my mother."
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Julius 2022-03-25 09:01:08
Compare amazing, dramatic. I don't know if this is the case with a certain force a few years later? ——The above is what I remember after watching the film on September 28, 2009—The following is the story of a family before and after the disappearance of the Berlin Wall after watching the film on September 18, 2013. very touching. A lot of problems are reflected in the bits and pieces, all kinds of East Germany, brainwashing education, lack of materials, privileges of party members, etc.
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[last lines]
[spoiler]
Alexander Kerner: [voiceover] My mother outlived the GDR by three days. I believe it was a good thing she never learned the truth. She died happy. She wanted us to scatter her ashes to the winds. That's prohibited in Germany, both East and West. But we didn't care.
[launches rocket]
Alexander Kerner: She's up there somewhere now. Maybe looking down at us. Maybe she sees us as tiny specks on the Earth's surface, just like Sigmund Jähn did back then. The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother.
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Denis: Denis
[handing Alex a video cassette]
Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...