goodbye mao zedong

Tillman 2022-03-24 09:01:40

I admit that I am very outdated, and I missed this film for so long, but fortunately I still did not miss it. The story is very simple. It tells the story of East Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a story about the death of a radical communist member's mother... The most impressive scene is that the mother was discharged from the hospital, and the son locked her at home to prevent her from knowing the fact that the Berlin Wall fell. Continue to run the long-defunct Socialist East Germany in a small room. One day my mother went out for a walk and saw that the outside world had become so capitalist... When she was walking through the street, a very surreal scene was that a helicopter was dragging a bust of Lenin flying from the sky, Lenin He waved goodbye to his mother, and finally disappeared into the twilight of the dusk... I remember that there is a scene in "The Gaze of Ulysses" where the hero and heroine kiss, with Lenin's head being hoisted by a crane in the background... Why are European films so good at scheduling scenes...

This film brings family and times together The great changes are linked together. The details are that the son went to find pickles from East Germany that could not be bought in the West German era, what brand of coffee beans and other things his mother loved to eat. People who visit their mothers have to wear slick East German clothes over their pretty clothes, and not even diapers for babies, but plastic ones. There is also one of his editor friends who recorded newsreels by himself, and abruptly described the capitalist commercial invasion led by Coca-Cola as a technical exchange between East Germany and West Germany, saying that the original formula of Coca-Cola came from the creation of East Germany; West German citizens who entered East Germany said that they had escaped the evil capitalist repression of West Germany and gained freedom. The mother said to the tailor, "There are no obese people in East Germany." The tailor laughed so hard that she almost cried. She said to her mother's son, "It's so fun to chat with your mother, it seems to bring me back to the past!" The last time my mother read the news before she died, I finally got a fact: the Berlin Wall came down, but it was a victory for East Germany, a victory for Intel's brother Nair. She took this beautiful dream and her life into heaven...a white lie, but that's it.

However, human beings are born for ideals, but when ideals and reality cannot be compromised, think about it from another angle. Even if the reality is not satisfactory, the ideal can still exist reasonably. This is the biggest inspiration for me from this film. Faced with the present, think from a different angle, perhaps ideals are not so easy to die? Goodbye Lenin, who am I to say goodbye to? Goodbye Max? Goodbye Mao Zedong? Goodbye Deng Xiaoping? Goodbye Raining? Goodbye Lei Feng? It's a pity that I can't say goodbye to them yet, they have already said goodbye to me.

Goodbye!

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Good Bye Lenin! quotes

  • Denis: Denis

    [handing Alex a video cassette]

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

  • Sigmund Jähn: Where to?

    Alexander Kerner: Wannsee

    Sigmund Jähn: I know what you think. Everyone does. But I'm not him.