Point I Fell Asleep: 0:15 out of 2:18(11%)
Location: Home
Time I Started Movie: Primetime
IMDB: http://imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
Wow, where to even start with this movie. Well, I watched it to see if Thinh's prediction would come true or not. Boy was he off. Usually, when I'm either really tired or the movie starts off really slow *cough* Good Shepherd *cough*, I'm knocked out by the 15 minute mark. And to make matters worse, this was a German movie with subtitles. So, I fell asleep at the 15 minute mark, woke up at around the 40 minute mark, and then got angry at Thinh for making me watch such a bad movie. As I was about to turn the movie off, I see a beautiful woman reluctantly giving in to being raped by a powerful authority inside his car. Then 5 minutes later, I see his buddy hiring a prostitue with a set of DDD's. So that kept me up for another 20 minutes, and I enjoyed what I was watching during that time. By the 1 hour mark, the movie got to be good, and now I'm curious as to what happened from the 15 minute mark to the 40 minute mark. I then proceeded to rewind the movie, watch the missing scenes, stayed awake the rest of the time, and consequently enjoying the entire movie. So I blame the nap due to lack of sleep versus the movie being bad. I would recommend this movie to all you Schindler's List, Munich, post-WWII movie fans out there.
The movie was about (and excuse my lack of German world history here) the Stassi aka cultural police eavesdropping on its artists, writers, priests, etc. The movie was based in East Germany in 1984, before the wall came down. And if the cultural police found anything you did that tarnished the country, you'd be sent to jail. So the Stassi is eavesdropping on this writer and his actress girlfriend. And that's all you really need to know.
***** SPOILER ALERT *****
My only critique with the movie was that I don't think it provided enough information about the stalker for him to have betrayed his job/country for the writer. He seemed pretty devout to his job for having done the things he did. However, I did love the ending where the writer chose NOT to approach him and get back in the car. If this was an American movie, he woulda ran up to him, gave him a big hug, and gone out for drinks afterwards while the credit rolled. Terrible!
***** END OF SPOILER ALERT *****
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
the main guy aka stalker ... changes because during his observation of dreyman and his girlfriend he gets to observe what they have (love) and contrasts that to what he has (loneliness) ... couple that with his superior using their authority and power not for the good of the state but to out a romantic rival, he becomes disillusioned.
Post a Comment