Goodbye Lenin

[The Grey Blur]

Has anyone seen 'Goodbye Lenin'? I think this must be the ultimate communist film. It is excellent, some of the details (Daniel desperately trying to find the obsolete communist brands of food) are hilarious while others are serious and poignant. Please respond.
BTW, the film is in German with English subtitles

[The Grey Blur]

The synopsis (go buy it on Amazon!):

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot...

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

i thought it was very well done i love all they ways they had to trick their mom .. like the news ..and the coca cola thing was genius

[Organic Revolution]

very interesting movie.

[Sabocat]

I liked the film a lot.

My favorite statement that the movie made, was the daughter who had been in college studying economics forced into working at Burger King after the collapse.

[ComradeAlex]

Its proves that altough corrupt horrible defacing Socialism is better then "true" Capatialism. Interesting eh?

[Phalanx]

I thought the whole thing was great. I liked his 'introduction' into capitalism.

[FatFreeMilk]

I saw the cover at Blockbuster and I thought it was gonna be a spoof without actually even picking it up to read the back.

I'll pick it up tomorrow and tell you what I think.

[Motorcycle_diAries]

Good bye Lennin is a cool movie. It's perfect i should add.

[YKTMX]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 12:44 AM
Its proves that altough corrupt horrible defacing Socialism is better then "true" Capatialism. Interesting eh?
I don't think it shows that at all. It doesn't make any pronouncements about which system is better. In fact, the fact that Alrx can recreate "socialist" GDR is his mother's bedroom just shows how similar the systems were.

[The Living Red]

it looks hilarious. must rent it.

[bolshevik butcher]

It does look a laugh, and to be honest, what they have now is much better than the ussr.

[bunk]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 6 2005, 10:13 PM
It does look a laugh, and to be honest, what they have now is much better than the ussr.
The largest numebr of homeless people in Moscow out of the whole world? Things are much worse. Since Yeltsin gave every workers some shres of the industry at the end of the USSR and the businessemen bought them out to have compelte control :angry:

[FatFreeMilk]

I don't think it shows that at all. It doesn't make any pronouncements about which system is better. In fact, the fact that Alrx can recreate "socialist" GDR is his mother's bedroom just shows how similar the systems were.
I'm pretty sure that's not the point of the movie. They writer or whoever was trying to show how much love this kid had for his mom. He went through a whole lot just take make sure she never found out the wall was taken down. And he sacrificed a lot too. But it was all worth it to him. You can totally tell how much he cared when he went out of his way just to get his mother the old spreewald pickles.

My favorite part of the movie was when him and his friend made that news clip explaining why the coca cola banner was put up right outside her window. And then the angry capitalist came out to oppress them.

But yeah, Russia today is facing problems that it didn't have to deal with back in the day. AIDs is spreading like crazy now due to the prostitution that many young women turn to in order to support their families.

[bolshevik butcher]

Originally posted by Josh+Jul 6 2005, 10:17 PM--> (Josh @ Jul 6 2005, 10:17 PM)
Clenched [email protected] 6 2005, 10:13 PM
It does look a laugh, and to be honest, what they have now is much better than the ussr.
The largest numebr of homeless people in Moscow out of the whole world? Things are much worse. Since Yeltsin gave every workers some shres of the industry at the end of the USSR and the businessemen bought them out to have compelte control :angry: [/b]
Actually i was reffering to in the old eastern bloc, east germany to be specific, as this was where the film was set.

[YKTMX]

But yeah, Russia today is facing problems that it didn't have to deal with back in the day. AIDs is spreading like crazy now due to the prostitution that many young women turn to in order to support their families.



Really? Oh well, I guess I was wrong - bring back the Gulag.