A good hollywoodian tale

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2007)

I enjoyed a lot watching this film.
However, the way some producers and directors feel they have to depict a totalitarian state puzzles me : They seem compelled to describe totalitarian horror through the tale of a good man. Resorting to that kind of narration certainly has a pedagogical virtue, and I do feel identified with the optimistic message of the film, but I am afraid that it fails to describe how totalitarian regimes achieve their systematic neutralization of moral judgment among individuals. Unfortunately, I am afraid that even today, few of us are immune to totalitarian brain washing.
"Das Leben der Anderen" seems to follow the path of the "Schindler's List", it has all the attributes of a good commercial success, but doesn't appear to be very ambitious.