Young people in small towns about the same age as me have probably had the experience of watching TV when they were young, and when they encountered kissing and sex scenes, their parents blocked their eyes from watching.
But this kind of cover is almost unnecessary. From my experience, the boys who got together when they were young learned a lot of swear words related to sex almost at the same time as they could talk and fight. The first time I tried to block my eyes, those images were already familiar to me.
The reason why this distant story is told is because it has very similar elements to the plot in this movie - some kind of cover-up and deception for protection.
The actor Alex, who was born in East Germany during the Cold War, concealed the fact that East Germany had disappeared while his mother was in a coma in order to prevent his weak mother from being mentally stimulated. He used various props, homemade videos, and colluded with other old friends of his mother, creating the illusion that East German society and the East German Communist Party were still functioning normally, but at the end of the film, the mother still knew the truth.
The mother who knew the truth was actually fine, she didn't faint, and she accepted this reality very calmly. Then, the mother began to cooperate with the son instead of puncturing the atmosphere created by the son. So this son's kind deception to his mother turned into a kind deception of the mother to his son.
We can see that, whether it is the parents who covered my eyes, or the son who created East Germany for the party member's mother, the deceiver in these stories has an assumption: the deceived cannot accept these realities, or it is not yet time. to accept these realities.
But I'm not as simple as my parents thought, or even far from it. Because of the reasons mentioned above, I have not expressed much resistance to the fact that my parents are always blocking my eyes when watching TV. For a long time, this lack of curiosity has formed a major contrast with my strong curiosity in other fields, so after a moment that I can't remember, my parents don't bother to make this kind of effort. .
And the mother of Alex and his sister is actually farther away from the mother they imagined: they always thought that the father who betrayed East Germany and the family was actually caused by his mother's hesitation and fear. Poor people who have separated from their wives; and in their eyes, their mothers who are diligent and dedicated to the party and the country actually planned with their father to flee to West Germany at a very early age, and after they failed to make the trip because of their cowardice, they continued to intercept them. Live the letters that the father sends to the children, just to maintain the lie that "the father is the betrayal of the family".
My mother did such an outrageous thing, but we couldn't blame her after watching the movie. No matter what reason she wanted to flee to West Germany with her family, she could be said to be the one who was willing to be calm and independent in that tightly controlled era. One of the thinkers, her only mistake was to give up because of fear in the face of the unknown, but we all have that fear - we can't blame others for not doing something we can't do ourselves.
From the mother's point of view, at the moment when the time window to flee to West Germany just closed, the father of two children has gone to West Germany, she and him, the children and him, may never meet again, but she will never meet again. She needs to take on the responsibility of being a mother, and in order to do that, she needs to have a positive image of her mother, which is why she cut off her father's letters.
Every deception in this story is for a well-intentioned reason. The mother deceives the children about the father, the children grow up to deceive the mother about the East Germany, and when the mother is dying, in order not to It made my son feel that his efforts were in vain, and he still cooperated with him to read the so-called East German news.
The story is told here, it seems that this plot is just to tell us the kindness and warmth between our families and relatives, as well as some deceit and concealment that come with this kindness and warmth. But this story is placed in the context of the second reunification of Germany, and it is named "Goodbye Lenin", which seems to tell us that this story is more than that.
The background of the film's story is an era when the west wind is overwhelming the east wind. Capitalism is entrenched in cheap cars, refrigerators and electronic watches. , we can also feel the impact of the huge gap between the rich and the poor from the narratives of those who went abroad in that era. This impact not only changed their way of life, but also changed their likes and dislikes, preferences, whole worldview.
Although many people didn't say it clearly, standing in that era, the most deceived people were undoubtedly people in socialist countries. Just like in the film, after the opening of the Berlin Wall, the hospital where Alex's mother lived was separated by three branches. Just like doctors who abandoned their patients and went to West Germany to find work - no way, the capitalist way of life is too attractive to the people.
But is socialism, and the descriptions of capitalism in socialist countries, really downright deceitful? of course not.
We cannot forget or deny that the red flag that once existed was planted all over the Eurasian continent and the Internationale was translated into dozens of languages. Everyone in the US government, the capitalist stronghold, was in danger because intellectuals, workers, and farmers around the world They all yearn for the kingdom of heaven on earth, and they defend it voluntarily, gratuitously, and even at the cost of their lives.
Because at that time, the biggest lie was capitalism.
Because in those days, the workers could not see the value of labor, they only saw that the capitalists were earning for nothing, collecting rent on the ground, suppressing workers, and silencing their conscience.
Because in those days, the workers worked hard all their lives, but could not obtain the wealth that the capitalists’ children had when they were born. This disparity even attacked from the material level to the spiritual level, and laughing at the poor and not laughing at prostitutes became the norm in society.
The deceiver and the deceived at that time were completely replaced after half a century. This exchange of fantasy and fantasy will continue in the history of mankind. After "Goodbye Lenin", we will see Lenin again.
In the final video for his mother, the host played by Alex's friend says:
Thousands of West Germans went to East Germany, they wanted to be liberated from the capitalist struggle for survival, not all of them wanted to engage in workplace fights and money-worshiping activities, and not all of them could stand the law of the jungle.
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