Tastefully done

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2007)

I enjoyed watching this film.I Liked it's kinda ' slow ' tempo...the rhythm of the movie.... The greatest Actor in it IMO was The guy who played Wiesler...the Stasi apparatchik who at the end showed he still had a ' feeling heart ' left for the life of other people.The end was touching to me...( where he finds the to himself dedicated book by Laslo...)
I found the portraying of Life in the DDR well executed...the burocratic inhumane atmosphere in which folks east of the German wall had to live...The everyone is listening - choking - sphere....
One scene , imo , was'nt too well done ....the scene where the 'betraying' actress runs out of the apartment and got killed by an on-storming truck.then we see laslo coming down and holding the dying woman..after that the Stasi gang comes out of the building and are reacting very unnatural IMO to the scene that plays in front of their eyes.... I found this scene hard to believe...
but an entertaining movie anyhow... and reasonably well done.