The Lives of Others
Posted by lawgeek on 18 May 2007 at 11:57 am | Tagged as: Music and Arts
Although I suspect it won’t be here for much longer, contrary to what I told TB yesterday it looks like The Lives of Others is going to be in the theatres at least for the weekend.
We finally got around to seeing this movie after J. saw the Globe review maybe two months ago. It’s set in pre-Glasnost East Germany, circa 1984, in the days when virtually everyone was either a employee, a informer, or a target of the secret police. It’s a memorable film and well worth your time, if you get a chance to see it before it leaves town.
I saw it months ago with TMQ — thought it was pretty interesting. I wasn’t really sure when it was going to end, since there were several possible end points along the way to the actual end. For all of us having been somewhat aware of East Germany from a Western perspective, an interesting glimpse into the society that existed.