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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
Seconded - Lives of Others is excellent!
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And very unrealistic. Civil right groups and former Eastgerman activists protested a lot against it, saying it is glossing over the StaSi. A case like in the movie is not known in StaSi history.
That'S what I meant with saying "populistic movies". In Germany, since some years we have kind of a wave, or a vogue, to wish back the GDR, glossing over it, talking it better and nicier than it was, and many movies reflect that as well. Another example is the movie "Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex", which is kind of a heroic action movie investing a lot of time to make the audience familiar with the terroists and asking questions about them (or not). The victims of their crimes remain almost anonymous and unimportant, and relatoives of victims protested that parts of the "facts" in the movie are simply wrong. But in Germany, we love to have educated debates about pedagogics. Or what we consider to be an "educated" debate.
Meanwhile, many youngster leaving school do not know about the GDR anymore, and if asked about it, give more wrong answers than correct ones.
Maybe that's the price of having a
Spaßgesellschaft (fun society). And a people busy with partying cannot invest time in thinking about how to send politicians and lobbyists to hell and chnage the economy, so it is pretty much
panem et circenses, and officially supported, boosted, enobled and tolerated, it seems to me.
Sorry for the distraction. And now back to the movies.