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The Lives of Others starring: Ulrich Tukur, Michael Gerber, Volkmar Kleinert, Herbert Knaup, Martina Gedeck directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck List Price: CDN$ 26.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 22.99 You Save: CDN$3.96 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 0043396170858 Format: AC-3, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: August 21, 2007 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 247 MPN: COLD17085D Related Items:
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 Rating: - Hearing the hereticsIt's all about stability - how to maintain it and how to prevent its disruption. In East Germany, from the establishment of The Wall, society found ways to lay out a given path for life. It also provided a traffic control body to keep individuals on that track. The traffic controllers were the staff and informants of the Stasi. Applying various, but effective, methods of thought control, the DDR rooted out dissent in its attempt to keep its populace thinking along "approved" lines. While we have been inundated with books and films depicting brutality, murder and intimidation applied in the East, this film shows an entirely different and far more efficient approach. Gerd Wiesler [Muhe], a Stasi captain, is recruited to launch an ... Read More: Rating: - A beautifully made and poignant movieWithout understanding all of what I was watching, I was moved to tears. The visual elements of this film conveyed so much of the drabness, the hopelessness and, ultimately, the tragedy that many people in the GDR must have experienced. I do not know how to put into words the emotional impact of what I have seen. It was a previously viewed film that an employee of the store where it was being sold tried to discourage me from buying. I'm glad he did not succeed. Rating: - A very powerful movie!This movie is so well made and with such depth of character and depiction of a totalitarian system, that it gives the viewer much to contemplate. It shows a ponerized society in it's final stages, when creativity is completely stifled. I liked the way the stasi captain was depicted, who was ideologically driven and the process he underwent. It would be hard to write more without revealing too much of the plot. In light of the way Western society is marching in a fascist direction with surveillance and torture becoming the norm this movie is a must see. To understand about ponerology, I can recommend a book I recently read called "Political Ponerology, a Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes", as it compliments ... Read More: Rating: - A very powerful movie!This movie is so well made and with such depth of character and depiction of a totalitarian system, that it gives the viewer much to contemplate. It shows a ponerized society in it's final stages, when creativity is completely stifled. I liked the way the stasi captain was depicted, who was ideologically driven and the process he underwent. It would be hard to write more without revealing too much of the plot. In light of the way Western society is marching in a fascist direction with surveillance and torture becoming the norm this movie is a must see. To understand about ponerology, I can recommend a book I recently read called "Political Ponerology, a Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes", as it compliments this film ... Read More: Rating: - Powerful...A Must See I would recommend this movie to all ages -both for the fact that it is very well made but also for its historical significance. It is one thing to have been told about the existence of a state that "watches" your every move, but it is something altogether different to witness it so intimately as one does with this outstanding movie. I have relatives from the East (Czech Republic) who grew up in this type of world. They had on occasion tried to describe the experience of living under these circumstance (they were effected by my father's escape) but I don't think I ever really appreciated what they meant..I think I do now. -highly recommended. |
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