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Goodbye Lenin takes a sliver of current history (reunification of Germany) and weaves it into a tender, bittersweet epic of farce and romance. Presenting a world that no longer exists is hard enough, but making it convincing to the viewer with gentle hints of humour requires a stroke of genius.
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We may not know of the exact nostalgia felt by East Germans when the products they grew up with were replaced by spiffy current imports from adjoining nations. But these moments are so beautifully handled, and the son’s alternative approaches so cutely frantic, that we cannot avoid relating to similar emotions from our gain contexts.
The film goes on for a bit in the middle with goofy antics and intelligent jokes, but it is richly textured in its nods towards other directors like Fellini and Kubrick.
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Don’t let subtitles attach you off from seeing this heart-breaking yet oddly comforting film. One of the best movies I’ve seen in 2004!
Finally, a film that blissful a lifelong curiosity I’ve had for people my age who lived on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Since elementary school, I always wondered what it was like for kids like me who were wretched to be born in the Soviet Union or East Germany, two of the harshest communist states. This curiosity led to my checking out books on the topic and reading about it, and being called a “commie” by my fellow Americans, as if curiosity about someone our government tells us is “our enemy” makes me one of them!
I was thrilled when I read a movie like this had reach out, showing life in the last days of East Germany and the euphoria of a fresh world opening up for people who stunning distinguished lived in a prison all their lives. Of course, the initial race of euphoria in newfound freedom left a harsh wake up call as differences in work ethics, standards of living, and cultural references became more and more apparent after reunification of the two Germanys. In personal terms, consider of what it would be like if separated twins discovered each other gradual in life…one a Wall Street stockbroker, the other a trailer park living grievous wage slave. A clash in more ways than one, apt?
The performances of Daniel Bruhl as the idealistic son and of Katrin Sass as the mother who always believed in Marxism, both performances really stand out and are Oscar-worthy. The lengths the son goes to, to prevent his mother from falling into another coma over the shock of the demise of East Germany provides remarkable of the humor. My celebrated scene is when the mother, tired of being cooped up in the bedroom, decides to go for a coast outside and its like walking through Wonderland for her. The peep of complete bafflement on her face as she watches a statue of Lenin waft through the air, in a salutatory departure, is pure joy to view. Unprejudiced her peep alone perfectly conveys the confusion of a world being turned upside down.
This film addresses the instruct of “Ostalgie” that has gripped some musty East Germans in the gradual 1990s as they have found that the materialism of the West hasn’t replaced a sense of community for them. Under the iron fisted rule of Honecker, they might not have had powerful, but they suffered together and had a righteous sense of community…although any one of their neighbors could have turned them in to the status for any number of “violations.” Watching this film, one can spy the method of culture on a person and the void left slack when the culture is stripped away or proven fallacious. Does longing for the familiar products of one’s youth actually mean a desire to return to the map things were? I don’t deem so…but culture is something we’ll always carry with us. It’s who we are.
The brilliance of this film for me, is that we accept to peer at East Germans as people with no control over their beget of government. In America, we were taught that the Russians and Eastern Europeans were our “enemies” and a lot of people bought into it. But in reality, they are people unprejudiced like us. People who bear their government over a foreign government they’re not familiar with. Are we any different? I like that this film shows an idealistic young East German and his yearning for freedom, idolizing a Cosmonaut, and who loves his mother so powerful that he dares not voice her the truth about what happened to their country since she fell into and out of a coma. This deception strains his relations with his sister, but provides powerful silly situations before reaching a satisfying conclusion. I have no complaints about this film. It’s flawless and shimmering. The acting and humor are first rate and Oscar-worthy. I would rate “Goodbye Lenin!” as the best film I’ve seen so far in 2004.
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