Goodbye Lenin, goodbye ideal

Friedrich 2021-11-18 08:01:26

Born in the 70s, we were nostalgic before we could grow old.
In "Goodbye Lenin", I see more of the nostalgia for everything after the merger of East and West Germany. After all, a country that has existed for 41 years will not disappear in our memory because of the collapse of a wall.
"The mother went home after 8 weeks. Although it returned to normal, she seemed to have become another person." What followed was that the mother cleaned up all traces of the father's existence. Since then, his father will no longer be mentioned. The patriarchal system is broken, and Alex has since violently rebelled against his mother's new lover.
In Alex, I saw the deja vu spiritual characteristics of the 70s.
On the surface, we are not much different from those born in the 60s and 80s. But in reality, we are always in such an embarrassing situation that we can't get better: we neither feel the dignity of history like the former nor can we escape completely like the latter. From the bottom of our hearts we are conservative people, we are neither new nor old. Some past lives have suddenly condensed into solids. But the outside world is enough to dazzle us, which makes us at a loss.
We are far from living so easily as people think.
When we first opened our eyes to look at the world, the whole world was in turmoil. In the last remaining socialist country, we cannot help but have a complex mentality that cannot be described. Our young age prevents us from having the opportunity to follow the sincere or hypocritical young liberals in the 60s on the streets. Unfortunately, we have seen what we should see and what we should not see, so before we became nationalists or opportunists in the 1990s, we were full of confusion and doubt. We cannot feel the idealism of the 80s that people born in the 60s sing repeatedly, and firmly believe that being bold and gentle, beauty and sadness side by side is actually just a self-deception mindset.
What they miss of the 80s, which is as pure as ice and snow, and as fiery as flames, is also suspicious. To a large extent, it was based on another anti-traditional false cultural prosperity and hilltops. Every time people try to overrule something. Revolution, revolution, revolution. And our feeling is similar to "The Egg under the Red Flag": the sudden opening is actually not sudden.
The Transcendence Band sings in the desolation of "Goodbye Ideal": At this moment, I think of the past, and my heart is full of energy. I have no worries about the reality, as if
we have everything around us ... We have buried our dreams when we were young and frivolous in adulthood. Only in a flash of thought will I suddenly think of the ambition of the year, and cry back to our past with tears streaming down my face.
Just as our fathers would never forget the pride of the past: remember? We once drank the banks of the Marton River, crossed the grasslands of Ukraine, over the peaks of the Urals, and ignited the red star of the Kremlin again. We have walked in the footsteps of the Commune, through the barricades of the Paris Commune, and drove through every town, village, and harbor in Europa on the drumbeat of the Internationale. The scenery of Switzerland, the spire of Pisa, the sunset of Yemen, the Buddhist temple in Phnom Penh, the cherry blossoms of Mount Fuji, the flue-cured tobacco of Havana, the red wine of Spain, the clear spring of black Africa. All of this: never made us nostalgic! Because we have a steel gun in our hands, and our responsibility lies on our shoulders.
We can only infinitely dilute, but we will never forget it until we die.
Even if the heart is dead, we are still working hard. We are still struggling even if we know we can't do it or don't do it badly.
So Alex followed the parade composed mainly of the 1960s at a loss, shouting slogans that he didn't understand, and didn't know where the coordinates were. On an occasion that was supposed to be at least a little more serious, she blocked her trachea by eating an apple and met her later girlfriend.
The mother described her fear as the deprivation of custody of the children by the state and the long years of queuing torture. In my opinion, what she cares more about is the orderly and reliable rationing of socialism, even though this order is based on tediousness. What needs to be explained is that socialism has been full of temptation to the Western world for a long time. Countless Western pilgrims came to socialist countries. They admired the grand narrative and collective will of socialism, and admired everyone. It is a society of poets. Of course, I also hope to meet a revolutionary beauty who is legendary and open. In contrast, today, don’t we still cheer for North Korea’s group gymnastics performances! It is conceivable that the mother who was born in Germany when the war was defeated, the ruins and deprivation were the shadows that she could not shed in her life. In order to satisfy the psychological comfort, she gave up all efforts, even her father. So in the face of the plot that "the original Coca-Cola formula is indeed the research and development result of the East German laboratory in the 1950s" is obviously a spoof, my mother would rather believe it.
Alex and the genius Dennis weave a respectable lie for their mother, although no one does not think this is a crazy move. In fact, this is a true lie. Imagine what would happen if the mother had not been in a coma for 8 months, but had experienced that period of history. The mother and the old gentlemen of Gansky were just like that abandoned by society, abandoned by a country that has worked for them for 40 years. What else can he do without watching TV every day? Before the two Germanys were unified, her mother was purged and fired because of her ideals. The General Secretary of the United Socialist Party Honecker, the Minister of Defense Kessler, the Chief of Staff Strelets, and the commanders of the border defense forces at all levels were tried. All members of the National Defense Committee were tried, and all the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Defense were squatting. Through the prison, countless border guard officers and soldiers went to jail... and before that, only a few people in West Germany promised to be punished by law. Who said the West is not good at pursuing purge campaigns?
Mother is actually the conspiracy of this well-intentioned scam. And leave peacefully in a forged and beautiful ending.
Freedom to fly is the main thread throughout the play, from Higum King entering space on the day his father ran away, to Alex and a group of young pioneers launching a spaceship, to Alex looking for his father to sit on Higum King Lada, to Higam King "as the leader" of the new generation, and finally to the spacecraft to carry the ashes of his mother into the air.
A real country that has existed for 41 years disappeared with its mother's ashes and gorgeous fireworks.
This is the end of an era.
Chairman Mao once said: "The world is ours and yours, but the end is still yours..."
And where is our future?

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Extended Reading
  • Amiya 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    "Socialism is not about self-closing, socialism is about giving to others, coexisting with others, not just dreaming of a world, but actually realizing it." (I'm dry)

  • Domenic 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    A country, a country that only comes to mind when I think of my mother, doesn't want to talk about democracy and freedom, just wants to quietly recall those warm and moving details. There are places to make people laugh out loud, and there are places to make people cry.

Good Bye Lenin! quotes

  • Denis: Denis

    [handing Alex a video cassette]

    Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...

  • Sigmund Jähn: Where to?

    Alexander Kerner: Wannsee

    Sigmund Jähn: I know what you think. Everyone does. But I'm not him.