What price freedom

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2007)

Firstly for my wife to enjoy this movie written in German but with English subtitles is a first in itself,and enjoy it she did immensely! Second i was attracted to this movie because the story is about modern(well modern to me)day oppression on ww2 scale or that similar to the situation in Germany in the mid to late 1930's,how could a society allow that to happen again,yet in did.
I have never been to the west of Germany and the way it was portrayed in this excellent film,its bleakness,its greyness,makes you wonder why and how horrible characters like seen in the movie gain power.
Yet was there a point at the end of the movie,the stasi officer,in a dead end job,the walls covered in graffiti,the traffic.I have spoken to a few young Germans from the East and asked is life any better nowadays and there answer is ,that before they could not say or go where they wanted,now they can go where ever they like and say almost whatever they like but they cannot afford it.
Freedom of speech is of course the number one requirement of any society,but our writers and artist take the freedom for granted.
An excellent movie but will not be watched by the wider audience.