Radio interviews with the director of this year's award-winning German film "The lives of others". I did not expect that the lead actor Ulrich Mühe, (the secret police in charge of monitoring), as an artist, was the subject of the monitoring. In the 1990s, quite a few people in Germany chose to forget the past and face the future, but there were also a small number of people who were determined to retrieve their files. Mue was one of them. For this reason, he once again experienced pain. When he discovered that his four best friends in the troupe were actually monitoring his work, his wife and children had also informed the secret, and he was even included in a blacklist of dangerous elements. In the event of an emergency, he will be quickly isolated. When I finished watching the movie, I thought that this unsmiling but deep-hearted secret police role might not be able to find a few Chinese actors who can perform well.
For the film, the director interviewed the real secret police. Drinking tea in their elegant study, he carefully talked to these old people about the past, tapping, interrogating, and collecting the smell of prisoners. At that moment, he said that he suddenly realized that civilization and barbarism were so close.
Dennis Miller, whom I've never heard of, is on Fox's O'Reilly show just now, talking about global warming. Funny enough, with a comedian talking about a science issue, what can you expect of him anything other than a straight denial . This time, the anchor, Mr. O'Reilly, is full of satisfying smile, without forgetting to pretend that we are emitting some carbon dioxide anyway. "Look at Shanghai", he yelled, totally ignorant of the fact that US has been by far the largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world. Just a while ago, when his earlier guest, an environmental professor, was talking, Mr. O'Reilly was by no means as light-hearted as this moment. There is no doubt that he is nowadays the rare people who still try to confuse people of the inconvenient truth. As civilized as it appears, Mr. O'Reilly's face,with its unique sophisticated expressions, has unfortunately turned into a symbol that, without lacking sincerity, constantly sets back the truth on news media.
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