The story itself is very creative. The time when a mother was obsessed happened at the historical moment when the Berlin Wall was torn down and the two Germanys were reunified, so the son faced the problem of a communist mother who could never be sober again. Because of this problem Movies are just starting to get interesting. By the way, the mother played by Catherine Sabei makes me feel very much like Taiwanese actor Gui Yalei, and even I think there are similarities in acting, of course, this is a digression. So the son went to great lengths to decorate the old house, found empty Dutch cucumbers of the old brand in the garbage heap, and spent money to find children to sing to his mother.
But how difficult it was all, the son was constantly challenged. A huge Coca-Cola billboard appeared outside the window, and the son had to find a friend to start his own fake news to make up for the panic. As the mother recovers and faces more and more challenges, it becomes more and more difficult for the son, but he still insists on finding ways to justify it. I began to be deeply moved by my son. Although it may not be smart to hide for a long time, the love for my mother is respectable. In the end, the son also understood that it was difficult to continue like this, so he decided to unify East and West Germany, and broadcast the last self-made news broadcast to his mother. In the news, the newly elected East German president was the first to appear on the news The East German astronaut in space became a taxi driver after retiring. This time his son invited him over to announce that the East German side would tear down the Berlin Wall, accept countless West German refugees flocking to East Germany, and negotiate with the West German President to open the border. Since then, the two Germanys were unified, and countless West Germans happily entered East Germany.
In addition to the main line of family affection, the film also describes a series of changes in East Germany after the reunification of the two Germanys in many details. In fact, East Germany should have the best economic development in the entire socialist camp, but compared with West Germany, there is a clear gap. After the reunification, the shortage of goods in the former East Germany was swept away, and replaced by a dazzling array of goods from all over the world. All the corruption of capitalism swept in. Western-style fast food, IKEA home, Coca-Cola, and satellite TV filled the lives of East Germans. Apart from the material changes, East Germans also faced different feelings emotionally. Older East Germans miss the lost country, imperfect but still unforgettable, because that's how they grew up. Young East Germans are so quick to accept new things from the West, they are so welcoming. On the other hand, what cannot be ignored is the emotion between East Germans and West Germans. As Germans, they belong to the same race, but they grew up in different camps and do not understand each other. It’s like Alexander introduced his sister’s boyfriend to his mother When asked him to pretend to be the secretary of the Communist Youth League, the clumsy performance of his sister's boyfriend made people laugh. He couldn't understand what it was all about. As China also has the same problem, in the eyes of compatriots in Hong Kong and Taiwan, some behaviors of mainlanders are not so incredible. Coupled with the economic differences between the two sides, there was a gap between the rich and the poor between East Germans and West Germans, and the emotions between the two were subtle and indescribable.
The topic selection and screenwriting are quite good, but the director Wolfgang Baker is not very clever in directing techniques, shooting, editing, and music. He is more imitating the master's handling techniques and has little innovation. At first glance, I have learned from Kubrick's works in two places. One is the time-shift processing. The young Alexander launches the rocket into the air. The camera is moved from the top to the bottom. It is the young Alexander, imitating "2002 A Space Odyssey". in that bone. The second is that Alexander arranged the room to look like it was before the reunification. At that time, he used fast-forward to process this section, imitating the section in "A Clockwork Orange" where Alexander had sex with two girls, and even the music used was the same. Despite its shortcomings, such a story with a special historical background is also infinitely attractive and moving to a group of people like us.
The tone of the movie is light comedy, but it is only aimed at people who have similar feelings. After knowingly laughing, there will inevitably be a little sadness. When the impact of that period of history can easily make the audience look away, in fact, the most important thing in the film is the son's affection for his mother. When the son concentrated on broadcasting the self-made news of German reunification for his mother, the mother, who already knew the truth, looked at her son with a smile in her eyes, and the affection seemed to be sublimated at this moment.
All the changes can not change the family.
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