The moving adventure of being a human being

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2019)

Gerd Wiesler, a faithful and effective officer of the Stasi, is the perfect pawn of the East German system: absolute obedience, no questioning, simple life, without deep relationships, without emotions ... his life only consists in accomplishing the task that the system has reserved for him.
But there is only one bug in this perfect equation: Gerd Wiesler, just as you and me, is a human being, and that can be wonderful!
So when his new surveillance mission to spy on "the lives of others" leads him to observe the rich and touching world of art, free thinking and deep human relationships, Gerd Wiesler discovers that, like a true human being, he can also be moved, he can contemplate a higher beauty, he can question the pre-established things, and his emotions can prevail over his rigid rules.
There is a touching scene in the film where Gerd Wiesler, in his proces of "humanization", instead of watching the others, he gets involved with them, so he gets out of his methodical and fanatical coldness to get excited by the art listening to "Sonata of a good man", and he cries of emotion. I felt the same than him watching this movie and I also cried of emotion because of this art... Do we still have doubts that cinema is also a true art? :-)