The lives of others

After mentioning this movie in my last post, i had to watch it. With such hectic schedules going on, still this movie has such a powerful impression in my mind that i had to watch it. Absolutely brilliant, cult, classic. There is so much to praise for, i can sing about it for one whole day.

If you abstract the movie with just its structure, this movie is 90% similar to the movie Fahrenheit 451. I hope people understand the common feature in both movies as this is the way to write a movie. I will also try to write something on this structure. I say 90% because we also have an ending here which is simply beautiful.

This movie makes a strong contender for my top #5 movie endings. Here is my "as of now" list

1. Cast away. No one can beat this ending for me. Standing at the cross roads, Tom Hanks wonders which way he should take.
2. Before sunset. Linklater does it again, he makes a sequel and leaves it as before.
3. Sixth sense. It had to be here.
4. Lost in translation. Another open ending, but totally deserved.
5. Lives of others. This ending is closed, but the last line - "Its for me" completes the movie. There is one thing in viewer's heart that is not fulfilled, the last scene fills that void and aha!


I am tempted to write Kill Bill vol 2 but its climax is the best climax ever, but its ending is not among the best.

Here is a song from that movie. All that internet tells me about this song is :
It is a poem Stell dich mitten in den Regen (Stand Right Out in the Rain) by Wolfgang Borchert, best known for the post-war drama Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside). Borchert, who died in 1947 aged 26 from hepatitis contracted as a dissident conscript on the Russian front, stands as an example of moral integrity. His poem consists of three stanzas, which urge the reader to confront rain, wind and fire, each concluding with the exhortation ‘und versuche gut zu sein’ (‘and try to be good’).

Taken from : http://www.ajr.org.uk/journal/issue.Sep07/article.917