Perfect

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2007)

This is one of the finest films ever made. It has the depth and the emotional intensity usually only found in great literature. To the best of my knowledge it captures the hapless idealism and the cynical thuggishness of East Germany's "really existing socialism" in a perfectly contained story resolved in a perfectly human way. After I saw it, a friend asked me how I would compare it to other films I had seen, and I honestly could not think about any other films. I could remember titles of course, but my mind was filled by this one. It is a masterpiece of understatement and rewards the attentive viewer completely.