Review of The Lives of Others (2006) by Andrewsd — 27 Jan 2012
The Lives of Others is a movie about the German Stasi - essentially the secret police. The main idea of the movie was the Stasi monitoring a man named Georg Dreyman. In some parts of the movie it can be a little sad or dark, but in the end, it has a very touching message.
It shows, through a man named Weisler, that mankind can have good in them as well as bad. He helped Dreyman, an innocent man, escape the punishment of the Stasi. Even though he wound up risking and ruining his career, Weisler still saved Dreyman multiple times without even Dreyman knowing it.
That is something that can be hard to grasp because most people are unwilling to help someone to that extent when they themselve lose more than they gain. It actually goes against our normal instinct as human being.
As well as being an uplifting an somewhat emotional movie, there are many, many, many deeper psychological aspecs to it.
This review of The Lives of Others (2006) was written by Andrewsd on 27 Jan 2012.
The Lives of Others has generally received very positive reviews.
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