The Lives of Others
Jul. 11th, 2019 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThis month's political film night choice was The Lives of Others, subsequent to our host suggesting we move away from US politics and try something else.
This film is about a Stasi operative conducting surveillance on a potentially subversive writer in East Germany in 1984.
It's a very cleverly constructed film, portraying a quiet struggle against internal conditioning and a more external struggle against censorship and tyrrany.
It was horrifying, but also quite funny in places and the characters felt very real.
This film is about a Stasi operative conducting surveillance on a potentially subversive writer in East Germany in 1984.
It's a very cleverly constructed film, portraying a quiet struggle against internal conditioning and a more external struggle against censorship and tyrrany.
It was horrifying, but also quite funny in places and the characters felt very real.
