Excuses for revolution

Talon 2022-01-14 08:01:36

What kind of life do you want to live? Jan asked Jule.

Jule hesitated, "You will laugh at me!"

"No, no, let's talk."

..."free and wild." Jule said, she leaned against the window. The two of them were painting the walls in the house where Jule rented. They had not yet become a couple at that time. Jule was Peter's girlfriend and Jan was Peter's friend.

The Edukators is a story about German angry youth. When many socialist countries betrayed the ideals of communism in name or in reality, young people in Germany were dissatisfied with the capitalist system and strongly pursued socialism that equals everyone and eliminates the gap between the rich and the poor. Jan and Peter are two angry youths full of revolutionary ideals. During the day, they are ordinary workers. At night, they put on their masks and sneak into the villas of the rich, messing up the contents, but they don’t steal anything. They just warn the rich, make them restless, and reflect on their exploitation. Nature.

This is how the story begins, but a miss, it leads them to an unknowable ending. When I watched a movie, I couldn't help but laugh. I know this is not a comedy movie, but a serious movie that explores youth, pursuit and confusion. Just like another movie played by Jan’s actors in the playSame. This is the kind of movie that makes people laugh, but never relax.

With the merger of East and West Germany as the background, it tells the story of an East Berlin family. His father "defected" to West Germany in his early years, and his mother was a retired teacher and an outstanding Communist Party member. Suddenly one day, my mother fell into a coma. When she woke up again a few months later, the Berlin Wall had fallen. The son knew that his mother could not accept this huge change at all, and was unwilling to let her face the disillusionment of the revolutionary ideals she had been fighting for all her life, so he used all sorts of strange tricks to create a fictitious "communism is gaining a huge victory" environment. Make every effort to retain all the signs of East Germany, which is rapidly disappearing. It’s very exaggerated, you can laugh with tears in exaggeration; but behind the exaggeration, there is such a serious and daunting theme, the crushing of ideals, the disillusionment of revolutions, the disappointment of a whole country and a generation; it is so heavy that it can hardly be mentioned. theme.

Germans just like to think about these metaphysical philosophical issues that rack their brains, reflect, digest, and then turn them into black humor. I like these movies. I also like the actor Daniel Brühl, who always looks a little upset and a little overwhelmed.

Jan said that if you didn't make a revolution before the age of 30, you would never have been young; if you made a revolution after the age of 30, you would be too young.

After watching the movie, we went to the Greek restaurant next door to have dinner. Elisa told me that revolution was once a very fashionable word in Europe. Young people revolutionized because they were not satisfied with a rich and peaceful society. When her mother’s generation was young, their village was divided into two factions. One faction was revolutionary and the other was conservative religious; “However, today, whether it is revolutionary or conservative, their lives have been very good. "This is Europe in the 1960s. I have heard of the legendary era. But I don't know, there are still so many people who are still so ideal. Just like Jan and Peter.

In other words, this is a necessary stage in the growth process, pursuing freedom, pursuing ideals, and pursuing a different life. The revolution is a good excuse they found.

I like this excuse, and I also very much agree with Jule's ideal of life, free and wild.

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Extended Reading
  • Macey 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The story of the proletariat wars against the capitalists should be played on a loop in various small, medium and large theaters in China!

  • Karson 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Those under 30 who are not left are soulless; those over 30 who are still left are brainless.

The Edukators quotes

  • Jan: I've got news for you, Corporate Man: your days are numbered!

  • [last words]

    Note on Wall: "Some People Never Change."