PodBill Just what I expected

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

ruoshi Without been in China, in 2018, I would not fully understand this great film. I have seen it many years ago in China, during college maybe, did not consider it anything special. But now, after living in US for 5 years, come back to China and saw this film, it's heavy. People here are under state surveillance in the most extensive way for whatever they say through internet. They complain offline, they escape the country like me, but not much people fight back. Now I realize, we Chinese citizens deserve all this, all of us, and this film explains my point.

shantahalderdulaw "Your missing this film means you necessarily did not live another human dimension of life". That's my simple suggestion,if expected,when it comes to this film.This probably is one of the films directed from first to last minute with the highest degree of intelligence and consciousness a human being can afford or perhaps have ever attempted to exercise. It's worth almost of fifty other films combined and you will feel that glint of humanity that is sublime,instinctive yet here is in distress and being challenged in such an overwhelming way that has only to be felt,ever represented in a film perhaps in the whole of film history.It can test one's breaking points,shake one's core principles that one snuggles deep inside.It teaches what humanity is with grueling and sometimes deeply undermining a test.It can break and penetrate one,it can lacerate one,it can consume one if one believes himself to be a human and;even if he doesn't believe himself to be human,this film will recommend that,that disbelief or desensitization is artificial and imposed thus is not inherently human and can afford to let a man be wavered.It is capable of stirring one's human feelings irrespective of the extent of exposure,hardening to inhumanity one has been or can be imagined to have been subjected to.

madisonmertz "The Lives of Others" left a strong impression on me about Germany during the time the wall was up and the Stasi controlled the lives of others. Although the movie had many complexities and themes, I will only touch on a few of the questions I had from the film and the main theme. There were a few things in the movie that did not make sense to me. Why did Wiesler remove the evidence from under the floor board at the end of the movie? This would have saved Dreymann but it would have ended Christa Maria. It seems like she would be imprisoned for lying. Why would Wiesler want Christa imprisoned? Did he like Dreymann better? My next question is why the mission ended after Christa committed suicide? Was this because the Stasi now felt bad for Dreymann or because they honestly thought he was innocent after not finding evidence under the floorboard?"The Lives of Others" had several main themes. I think the most important theme was what it means to be a good person. After watching this movie I can not help but look at people in my own life and think "that is a good man." I felt sorry for Wiesler, because he had no love. I saw the most character growth with him and by the end of the movie I think most people can agree that he is a good man. Dreymann seems to be a good man throughout the film and he grows as a character when he takes a stand against the Stasi. Christa Maria in my opinion, is a good person, she just has some personal insecurities. Overall, this was a well put together movie with many more elements and complexities and themes.

sreeduttasamanta In the stifling atmosphere of communism where even the most private thoughts are read every seconds, a Stasi official named Weiseler weighs his humanitarian feeling over his duty to the government and learns the meaning of love , sacrifice etc. This movie called "The Lives of Others" shows us that life is impossible to understand or judge unless looked at it from its own point. The movie's first opening scene shows us Weiseler's unwavering loyalty towards the party and he suspects Georg Dreyman, a writer, of sedition when he is thought to be an ideal citizen by many others. Henceforth a secret operation is ordered by the minister of culture at Dreyman's house with Weiseler in charge of it. From that point he starts to intervene in the lives of Dreyman and his girlfriend Chirsta Maria Seiland and gets to know every personal thing in their lives. He eventually comes to know that the cultural minister is nothing but a competitor of Dreyman and misuses his power to get Christa. When he comes to know that the communist party head (the cultural minister) behaves like a bourgeois and moulds the communist rules according to his whims and fancies, his loyalty which was entirely directed towards the government becomes divided and he empathizes with the lives of Dreyman and Christa Maria Seiland. He becomes a soft- hearted man and tries to save them at every possible opportunity. He does not report that Dreyman has written an article about the movie director, Jerska's death which is prohibited by the law. He also removes the typewriter from under the door sill which would have been a concrete proof that Dreyman is anti-national and he would have punished or killed. After a few years, the communist regime breaks up and he no longer is a stasi official, but a commoner. I liked the last part when he goes to the bookstore to buy a book by Georg Dreyman and the owner asks "Should I pack it?" He tells "No, It is for me." which has double meanings. One is that he bought the book for himself, another is that the book was written by Dreyman about him, the Stasi official who saved his life.