over-rated but nice drama

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2007)

I am happy for the German film business which is doing better and better, and Americans like this movie even though it's not about Hitler! But I think it is a bit too sentimental. It tells a touching story, but of course it takes the story of a Stasi who is really "good on the inside." But I would rather see a movie about the truth, about how the stasi was mostly not so moral. But I guess it's nice for people to see, because they think that if they were in his shoes, they would also be "nice." But the movie never really explains why he decides to be a good person, so it's just "boring guy is a good guy"...
I think it is better in subtitles, because in German it felt sort of obvious, but when you read subtitles you think it must mean more!