A small follow up to my post from Tuesday about the movie In the Lives of Others. The movie is over two hours long so me and the soon to be mrs. nemov watched it over two nights. I don’t want to go into much detail so I won’t spoil it for anyone else, but it’s a fantastic movie. While I’m not sure about the whole “conservative” angle of the movie it’s a terrific insight into the totalitarian world of the Iron Curtain. The movie serves as stark reminder of the dangers of a state that has too much control. While it seems like it could never happen in the United States it doesn’t take much for a ruling elite class to impose its will on the population.
Given the amount of communist sympathy that exists among movie makers (see: Che) it’s a good to see a movie that sheds some light on the horrors of socialism.
Instead of watching the great pontificator tonight I think instead I’ll watch the movie In the Lives of Others. It’s a German film that was voted the most conservative movie of all time by the National Review.
“I think that this is the best movie I ever saw,” said William F. Buckley Jr. upon leaving the theater (according to his column on the film). The tale, set in East Germany in 1984, is one part romantic drama, one part political thriller. It chronicles life under a totalitarian regime as the Stasi secretly monitors the activities of a playwright who is suspected of harboring doubts about Communism. Critics showered the movie with praise and it won an Oscar for best foreign-language film (it’s in German). More Buckley: “The tension mounts to heart-stopping pitch and I felt the impulse to rush out into the street and drag passersby in to watch the story unfold.”
I really don’t know much about it other than it won the Oscar for best foreign language film last year. Either way it’ll serve a nice distraction. It’s not uncommon for presidents to give an address before a joint session a month or so after the inauguration. The president has yet to say anything worth substance and frankly if you’ve seen one good empty speech, you’ve seen them all.
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