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"The Lives of Others" Movie recommendation (in light of the 0bama scandals)
http://youtu.be/KOdn9Yelxwo ^

Posted on 05/21/2013 4:26:04 PM PDT by FrdmLvr

I immediately though of this movie about the E. German Stasi when these scandals broke a week or so ago, The Lives of Others. Has anyone seen it? Do you agree?

http://youtu.be/KOdn9Yelxwo


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KEYWORDS: bigbrother; communism; eastgermany; movie; sourcetitlenoturl; stasi; tyranny; vanity
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1 posted on 05/21/2013 4:26:04 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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Best movie I’ve seen in a long time....well worth it.


2 posted on 05/21/2013 4:26:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Exceptional film. Once you get engrossed in it, you forget it’s in German.


3 posted on 05/21/2013 4:27:38 PM PDT by Publius
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Both my mom and I loved it. Very moving and well done.


4 posted on 05/21/2013 4:29:00 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: FrdmLvr

Great movie!


5 posted on 05/21/2013 4:29:07 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: FrdmLvr

great movie


6 posted on 05/21/2013 4:29:37 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: PghBaldy

Netflix has it, BTW.


7 posted on 05/21/2013 4:30:10 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Publius

Same for my other all-time favorite German movie, “Goodbye, Lenin!”


8 posted on 05/21/2013 4:31:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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That is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. The best part is when the son explains to his hard-core Communist mother that the reason that the Berlin Wall is down is because all the West Germans knocked it down trying to break into East Berlin to get away from capitalism.

I almost peed myself laughing at that.

9 posted on 05/21/2013 4:34:06 PM PDT by Publius
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To: dfwgator
Essential viewing.
10 posted on 05/21/2013 4:34:25 PM PDT by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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To: FrdmLvr

Best movie ever made, I have never been so captured by a movie maker.


11 posted on 05/21/2013 4:35:01 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Publius

One of those movies where you’ll laugh a lot, and shed a tear or two.


12 posted on 05/21/2013 4:36:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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You’re exactly right about that. Another one you get so engrossed in and forget about the subtitles is Black Book. Outstanding! So easy to follow. It’s German name is Swartzbock.


13 posted on 05/21/2013 4:39:47 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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I’ve stopped counting how often I have recommended this movie to everyone I know and on FR as well.

It should be required viewing in every high school in the land. William F. Buckley thought it the most significant film he’d ever seen.

If you have the dvd version be sure to take in the director’s comments and the other short features and commentary. The main actor ( the Stasi interrogator ) was himself a victim of the Stasi.

The trilogy of books ( Child 44, The Secret Speech, and Agent 6 ) by Tom Rob Smith depicting life in Soviet Russia is also riveting. The prose is stunning. Child 44 has been picked up by Ridley Scott to be turned into a movie.


14 posted on 05/21/2013 4:40:46 PM PDT by A'elian' nation
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Or Sophie Scholl, Die Lezten Tage (Sophie Scholl The Final Days)

The guy that played Freisler had him down to a T.


15 posted on 05/21/2013 4:42:02 PM PDT by dfwgator
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16 posted on 05/21/2013 4:47:23 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: FrdmLvr

Excellent movie!


17 posted on 05/21/2013 4:49:16 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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The Lives of Others is about a society in which God is supplanted by the State. The State is feared.

A near equally mesmerizing film is The Separation. A film about a society where the belief in the wrath and judgment of God is so feared that man’s laws are almost unnecessary. I doubt this film was based on an actual event, but it is a fascinating insight into such a culture.

In The Separation the God is Allah. It does make you wonder how you would lead your life under a God of fear and not a God of love.


18 posted on 05/21/2013 4:53:00 PM PDT by A'elian' nation
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The Lives of Others is actually on YouTube. It’s a 360p version, but it’s quite crisp and is easily watchable in the intermediate size.

It’s a 02:17:35 movie.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veag-ptUkXI


19 posted on 05/21/2013 4:53:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: FrdmLvr
It was a great movie, and it had a happy ending... sort of.

I fear that will not be the case with Ubama's Stasi.

If the noose starts tightening around his neck, all he has to do is stop the EBT payments on the first of the month and the country will be in flames the next day so he can declare martial law and Janet can start using those billions of rounds DHS has stockpiled.

20 posted on 05/21/2013 4:59:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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