The Lives of Others (or some german name)

watched this today when i woke up. one of the best movies, again. i really am on a roll this year, ive watched SO MUCH good stuff in the space of a couple of months.

well on to this one, german made, won an oscar for best foreign film. the main man Weisler with a gem of a performance. the only thing about it that was kinda lame was the writer, Georg Dreyman, idealist with supreme moral fibre and all. whats more, his crying scenes aren't the best.

still, a movie that really depicted well an individual very much a part of the creaking communist plot of East Berlin in the 80's. and how waking up from that dream can be painful, even ruinous for someone who believed in its underlying ideals only to realise it had all gone so wrong long before.