forever lenin

Elsa 2022-04-23 07:01:46

How will an ordinary family's life change before and after a major event that affects the world?
Family affection, friendship, love, young people's desire for an ideal country, and their attitude towards new things are all reflected in "Goodbye Lenin".
The process of national change is actually an open process. The film describes this change from a more life-like and subtle perspective. People's clothing, room styles, and food brands have undergone earth-shaking changes within a few months. In order not to stimulate his mother's heart too much, ALEX can only cheat his mother with the people around him. In this process, the feelings between people are fully reflected and expressed. Continuing to conceal, in fact, constantly revealing young people's longings and expectations for the country, especially the last fictitious news they took for ALEX's mother, it also reflects the bright future they all harbor.
I didn't know about the classic scenes in the film, but I think it was a classic scene when ALEX's mother went out for the first time after she was discharged from the hospital and saw a bronze bust of Lenin being pulled away by a helicopter. This is a key point, telling the story. His mother, the country is changing; the other is the last, everyone gathered in front of the TV to watch a speech arranged by ALEX of Kim, the purpose is to tell the mother that the country is beautiful, and also to express their young people's own expectations for the country .
The truth was not told in the end, but this may be the best result. The mother imagined a beautiful motherland in her heart, and the next generation is full of hope to move forward and strive to achieve this goal. Although the film has partings with relatives, it is passionate and upward, and the soundtrack at key points also makes people emotional, which is really good.

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  • Luciano 2021-11-18 08:01:26

    My favorite movie, I only watched it once. I know I only need to watch it once and it is my favorite movie

  • Jean 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    The real dialectic is in love, not the victory of any one party, but the fulfillment of the left and the right. The art is good, although it is old, it is simple and beautiful, the photography is average, the supporting characters are better than the protagonists, and the movie is taken away by the script. There is a strong sense of design in the play, and Bruch's performance is also radical, and the illogicality is even more reluctant; it can only be said that through one incident in the family, the unification of East and West Germany is a historical event that shocks the world. , is light and ingenious. When the protagonist interprets the incident from the perspective of East Germany, he also sends out the calm and sincere words of "this is more like the Germany that I hope for". The part where the Lenin statue left should be considered a classic. The plot of pretending to be a news network should be from a previous movie, and the good friend seems to be a character from a Kaurismaki movie. The ending is very good. Looking back on the society when the two Germanys were unified, I don't know why the fireworks are a little bit of Eastern Ying style. It's just that the Japanese movie may end as soon as the fireworks rise, and this movie also gives the group portraits of these nostalgic "old people" on the ground nostalgically. Personally don't like it. Three and a half.

Good Bye Lenin! quotes

  • [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.

  • Denis: Denis

    [handing Alex a video cassette]

    Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...