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In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Martina Gedeck: Christa-Maria Sieland
Ulrich Mühe: Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler
Sebastian Koch: Georg Dreyman
The Lives of Others is greatness, it is captivating to behold. Every tuneful composite, rich and diverse. Every shot detailed and clean. This is based on true events, coming across the Ultimate ''Enemy Of the State''.
How lives can be watched, every little detail recorded, dissected and analyzed.
A man who's detached from those lives who watches yet has no part in them but then it begins to unravel, Wiesler begins to connect.
Cold, unemotional and impassive as he listens in more and more he begins to formulate an understanding to the essence and grasp on life that his Government so poorly lacks and has lost.
This evolution in character has rarely been depicted in a film, so well fortunately and miraculously The Lives Of Others succeeds in being a masterpiece that deserves nothing less than five stars in it's depiction.
Jokes, passion, love, laughter are all but frowned upon. Where one thing said out of place against the Socialist Order could be enough to destroy your life. The freedom of speech confined to a long forgotten memory.
Others isn't just a film that shows ideology but a lesson of humanity and compassion, a fierce analysis of it's characters.
As Wiesler sheds a tear listening to the beautiful piano playing of Dreyman he's starting to wake from a nightmare of his own isolation. Followed by a scene with a boy and Wiesler in an elevator, where the boy tells of his father's fear and indifference towards the Government's ways.
Wiesler begins to ask the boy for his fathers name, but alas he falters and fails as he begins to ask. A glimmer of hope for a dying fragile humanity fighting from the deepest recesses of his soul.
The Lives Of Others made me think of so many higher thoughts. If anyone had the audacity to touch my woman in any way i wouldn't hesitate to track them down and destroy them. When a film makes you think of that you know it's powerful in many ways.
It hits all the right buttons and makes me see the constant imperfection looming over the world, yet a faint but improbable tunnelled view of hope remains shining a light into the mirrored complexity of the soul.
Interesting the issue of Suicides classed as ''self Murders'' in Germany in 1977. A selfish yet painful form of the worst depravity: Escape...
Idea's can be powerful motivations and ripples but also highly dangerous, ''Others'' cannot stress this enough.
When we come to the conclusion, it's beautiful, poignant, tragic and heart wrenchingly real, a swan song that echoes and lingers within the very fabric of your being...
Yes the wall has come down, but look deeper...It's not just a physical wall that has broken but one that cannot be seen or touched, but is up here in your head and down here in your heart, and to put a wall on the two constants that drive you is to deny your humanity...
10/10
