gentle and lonely

Stella 2022-04-20 09:01:12

This is a movie that made me cry at the last minute of the movie.
Wiesler is a cold-blooded, even brutal, secret police officer. When interrogating a prisoner, he will not show mercy at all until the prisoner's mind breaks down and he gets the information he wants. But it is such a secret policeman, why did he finally protect his surveillance target, even at the expense of his own future?
I think it's because he found the love and trust he always wanted but couldn't have in his relationship with the subjects of his surveillance, writer Dreyman and his girlfriend. Such a beautiful pair made him yearn and want to protect them from harm.
Wiesler's world is full of conspiracy and betrayal, full of power and desire, but he yearns for a beautiful, pure and warm world, and he sees his own hopes and dreams from Dreyman and them.
Now that he is trapped in this cold and dirty world and cannot escape, he should at least use his own hands to protect the pair of people who let him see beauty, warmth and hope.

The last sentence es ist für mich. made my tears unstoppable.


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The Lives of Others quotes

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Go away. I want to be alone.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam Sieland?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Do we know each other?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Actors are never "who they are."

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know what I'm like.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I'm your audience.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I have to go.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Where to?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: No?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: And you are a good man.

  • [Wiesler enters the elevator at his apartment building. A young boy with a ball joins him]

    Junge mit Ball: Are you really with the Stasi?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Do you even know what the Stasi is?

    Junge mit Ball: Yes. They're bad men who put people in prison, says my dad.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I see. What is the name of your...

    [pauses]

    Junge mit Ball: My what?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: [thinks for a few more seconds] Ball. What's the name of your ball?

    Junge mit Ball: You're funny. Balls don't have names.