You may not be paranoid, but they're really after you

Rating: 8/10 (30 March 2007)

Well those well wishers who wanted the film to go abroad, your wish is on the other side of the globe I presume. I have just seen it in Sydney Australia, mind you not in the big theatres, in an independent theatre with a modest crowd too. As for our viewing experience...Wondurbar (excuse my German attempt). Yes wonderful, I won't go over the plot, the characters etc. for two reasons. 1)I'm not too gifted in that domain, 2) It's all there many times in many pages if you care! What I can talk about is the way I felt during the screening and after. I was totally engrossed by the story, and for the story itself too, not for its credibility although I'm convinced it's in the scope of reality but for the way it was delivered. I did meet someone in relation to my job who told me what it was like to live in these days and this situation. He was from Hungary, if you've seen the film you might appreciate what Hungary must have been like in comparison to East Germany. Well yes in the final analysis it's a feel good movie but thanks to the clever direction it receives and takes. I appreciated so much the way the end is handled. I recently started to do something different with my visit to IMDb before "putting my 5 cents" I read the default setting comments that is best first. Then I change the filter to "Hated it" Because it's interesting to read why some people don't like a mostly popular movie. I did not tick their comments as helpful, yet in someway they were but I don't think they put their comments to win a popularity contest and I have little knowledge about the subject to take side, yet I can imagine the difficulty one would have to appreciate a work that portrays something quite different to what one believes to know very well. As for me the story worked very well the characters were so well represented and the ending somehow contributed to restored some faith in human beings