About ideal

Cary 2022-03-21 09:01:44

In 2003, the German LOLA Film Festival was immersed in red nostalgic euphemisms. "Goodbye Lenin" won the best film, best director, best actor with a unique and shocking name... Seven awards, box office With more than 35 million euros in revenue and more than 5.7 million views, the data seems to tell us something. There are no political films that are sad, but only social microcosms that emphasize changes and details.

The whole film is full of memories and ridicule, but without a trace of impetuousness and abruptness, it extends the camera to a territory that has no answer and ends with warmth and resignation. The bust of Lenin was slowly moved away from the city by the helicopter. The face of the statue stared blankly at his mother, as if he was questioning the future direction of the whole of Germany. Economic development and the spirit of East Germany.

The film is very memorable. From a warm family, it shows a lost ideal. As the protagonist himself said in the film, he painstakingly compiled the TV program, distorting events, reinterpreting history, and perhaps expressing All these lies are not only for his mother, but this is also the ideal country in their hearts that they have been looking for, the country that cannot exist in reality. In fact, in the end, everyone knew that this was just a lie, but no one broke it. Everyone was so moved to watch this fabricated utopia on TV. After all, what else is more precious than an ideal?

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Extended Reading
  • Chloe 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    I really want to give it five stars! Politics, history, and traumatic memories are cleverly obscured by family affection. Criticisms of this film in any sense are acceptable, except for the empty statement that "this is a movie where the victor declares victory and spoils" with a standpoint and no content. Because scholars who say this often talk about history everywhere, but also forget history everywhere. What they have not forgotten is just their own position~ You know who I am talking about~

  • Frances 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    After "Life is Beautiful", another story of lying because of love. It's a pity that, as I don't know much about German history, when I watched this movie, it was inevitable that I was a little confused about politics. Even so, I still like it. —— 2014.04.15 @nortel-standard release: Alex is really amazing, he can disguise such a complex white lie so cleverly, the scene imitating "2001 A Space Odyssey" is so funny.

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...