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Stitch

StitchSuper Member!

United States

March 31, 2007
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My favorite movie of the year! (I know it's early in 2007Tongue out...but it is a great movie, and I don't see other movies that can top it off any time soon...)

 

The Lives of Others

A German Film.
The movie is set at East Germany from 1984 to 1991. 1984,  five years before Berlin Wall's downfall, the former East- German government (known as the GDR, German Democratic Republic) ensures its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance via the Stasi, a vast network of informers that at one time numbered 200,000 out of a population of 17 million.

The topic is interesting to me first of all, since I have not seen movies about this subject. There are lots of German movies about WWII and the Nazi, but not many movies touched the recent history or stories about East Germany.

The film is sober and simple in its usage of color and music, but the actors brings in all the deepest emotions. The characters are very well developed with great spectrum of human qualities, the ugly and the beautiful. It's very well executed and made me leaving the theater thinking over and over about the story with a warm feeling inside.

09:10 PM May 14 2007

stanxing

stanxing
China

From all of your comments, it seems that no bad movie. But I do not see the film. I will try to review it in the recently days.

Now I suggest one sitcom" Prison break", Maybe you already know this, frankly speaking, I never see so good sitcom. if you never see this, I strongly suggest you to look it.......

 Wish to communicate with all you....

05:25 AM May 07 2007

lanbing
China

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12:49 PM Apr 07 2007

german germ
Germany

Fantastic movie!  I was born in West Germany and we don't learn much about the GDR at school so it's very exciting for me to see what happened there merely 20 years from now!

 

03:47 AM Apr 05 2007

bill.roc
China

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10:06 PM Apr 04 2007

john

johnSuper Member!
United States

 I agree this is a great movie.  The first slow 20 minutes worried me a bit, but as events took place, I understood why it needed to start that way - made the rest so good.