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Story
by valica (movies profile)
Mar 7, 2008
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8 people found this review helpful
I read all the reviews. In almost all appears the word "story". Story ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It was as real as Apollo 13.
The german style of movie is a precise one, non dramatic as american movies, so certain aspects may escape to the western viewer. Like the scene with the kid in the elevator. You saw, even the kids knew about STASI. There was another joke: An old woman, from countryside, comes to the city at her son who worked for STASI. So she asks somebody, in the street: Where is the STASI, where is the STASI ? All around, granny, all around, she gets the answer. Only the way it was said it was a joke. It was true.
I didn't know that the joke with comrade Honecker was an Eastern European joke, an international joke. And I knew it BEFORE 1989.
Towards the end of the movie there is a scene in which every person could see his own STASI file. This didn't happened yet in all ex-communist countries.
Let me explain something: why the captain who had the case, one of the guys with blue eyes, decide to falsify prove and even to sabotage ? Because they was all educated in the spirit of patriotism and they was told they are doing it all to defend their country. Once this was made for superiors and for career, then... Remember in the movie, I think 3 times, his superior says: imagine what would mean if we find something against the writer, for our careers, for mine and for yours, and then he urges him: find something, find something, I expect success, we are not anymore at school now. This caused all the trouble and Christa's death. She could betray her body, making sex every week whith the very high rank STASI officer, in the car. The writer, told her he knows and understand this. She is forced to become informant of STASI, under fear of losing her condition, of intelectual person (the most dreadful fear). No acting anymore if she doesn't agree to cooperate.
As an informant, now, she fears she would loose his man's trust and love, once her betrayal will be revealed to him, by revealing the place where the writing machine was hidden. Plus, her man will be destroyed intelectually after 10 months of complete isolation. And she will loose all trust of intelectuals around her. So she decide to kill herself. If the writing machine would have been there, she would have been dead anyway.
One more thing: The Writer receives, as present, a fountain pen. Then, during the search in his apartment, they show the pen on the table. I must say that STASI men had a very big fear of pens, in fact fear of what these pens can write. Suicidals was at least induced suicidals even murders of STASI, so the article wrote by the writer was extremely dangerous for STASI - this is why all that surveillance 24/7. |
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