Political and moral stand-points of view from the movie

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2008)

Though it is a time piece, you can extract underlying passages from it, and mentally apply the into modern life, for instance the US government imposing of the "Patriot Act" and other kinds of political erratic behavior; not only from the current administration but also by past democrat presidencies as well, which threatens the widely known notion of "freedom, justice and the American way" the US preaches. But not only in USA but more currently in amazingly "1st" and "2nd" world countries also Even though the piece is conceived and viewed form a politically and morally individualistic point of view, there are several implications to the ramifications of the actions of governments (the people)oppress and suppress the its population. Personally I have ambivalent feelings with the opinion of "Stassiland" author Anna Funder for whom the point of view of the director is to optimistic and uplifting, "a superb movie but not very realistic"; the characters portrayed are the same as anyone any where everywhere and anytime; be it (apropiate here or not for some)Nazi German, Ruanda in the mid 90's or Turkey during the 1913; no matter how dark it may seem or different the circumstances, the perpetrators remain the same, they are red-blooded human beings with capacity for both good and for evil as well.