The beginning of the film is a fragment of the life of a family. It was in 1978 when the young Alexander Cornell witnessed the East German astronaut Sigmund Jean becoming the first person in Germany to travel in space. He was proud of his national identity and looked forward to the future of his astronaut. On the same day, he learned that his father and a female "class enemy" had fled to West Germany, and that pride and grief were to be carried by a child on the same day. And his mother, Christina Cornell, devoted her whole energy to the party and the children in her depression, to her ideals. In a blink of an eye, in that year of turbulence, Alexander also took to the streets to protest, but one day her mother witnessed the scene where he was caught in the parade, and suddenly became distraught and fainted. When she woke up, it was the second year. June. The GDR that was there no longer exists. The Western way of life has flooded East Germany. The people of East Germany are also excited by the performance of the former enemy-West Germany’s football team in the summer of Italy. A female nurse fell in love. Faced with his mother who could not accept the stimulus, Alexander chose to lie, choosing a lie that continued the life of the GDR so that his mother who was full of socialism could have a peaceful life. Finally, although full of twists and turns, her mother died quietly in the dream of prosperity and harmony in GDR.
I have seen most panicked movies, but the same movie you can make absurd comedies like "Party A and Party B", or like this "Goodbye, Lenin", bringing people moved, nostalgic and thinking. Alexander loves his mother very much, and he has seen her fainting because of witnessing his arrest, so he has always felt a little guilty. He does not want his mother to bear the drastic changes of the past eight months at once. Originally, he and his family embraced the new life enthusiastically. His sister became a clerk in a fast food restaurant and found a Western lover. He became a TV clerk and fell in love with a beautiful nurse. But, for his mother, he has to go back in time, he has to decorate a lie that is beautiful to his mother. Like any lie, whether you are in good faith or malicious intent, you will get deeper and deeper and harder to return. The family tried to reveal the truth, but facing his mother's happiness and serenity in this illusion, Alexander could not end it all. He is in constant conflict with his lover and sister, but who can really bear the shock of seeing an already fragile woman facing reality? They finally worked together to weave this lie, this lie that belongs to a family, this lie that has left a country that collapsed for a few months. Several times, the lie seemed to be shaky, especially when Christina stood up again and walked tremblingly towards the street. She saw people from West Germany, Western cars, outdoor underwear advertisements on the side of the road, and, The symbol of their time-Lenin, a helicopter lifted a statue of Lenin and passed her eyes, and the hand of the statue seemed to be calling her, calling her from a passing time. When I saw this, I thought the lie would be exposed at this time, and Mrs. Cornell would face the cruel reality, but Alexander still used a bigger lie to confuse the past. I wondered if Mrs. Cornell already knew that she was living in a lie, but she understood that it was a white lie, and she couldn't bear to puncture it. Why puncture it? Under this lie, although Alexander and his family and friends are under pressure and toss, when they sang past songs at Mrs. Cornell’s birthday party, when they When enjoying the sunshine in the old villa, I want to let the lie continue. When this moment of joy rippling over this family, what regime change, ideology and other things should at least make way for this ordinary family, for one The lies of love, far more noble than the political lies of the past, make way. In the end, they got their wish and Christina died in happiness.
The ending part of the film is full of drama. When Alexander and the others weave a lie for the past eight months, Mrs. Cornell has actually woven a lie for more than ten years. In the former villa, Alexander learned that his father It's not because a Western woman left. Their whole family should have left. They should have lived in the environment where they live at this moment, but the cruel reality made them all live in lies. At the moment when Mrs. Cornell revealed the truth, I realized that she was not as convinced of her past ideals as she seemed, and she supported her husband’s defection not because she had doubts about her past ideals, but because her husband did not join the party. After being tortured, I even feel that she is not as passionate about politics as she seems. She just wants to take good care of her husband and children. Lies do not matter whether they are benevolent or malicious. They are cruel at the moment the truth is revealed, and those who are "deceived" will be very hurt. So, Alexander left silently, and his sister frantically searched for the father's letter hidden by his mother. I like the warm and sad ending of this film. Mrs. Cornell’s departure is no regrets and peace. She told her children the truth and relieved the heavy burden of her heart. She met her lost husband. Yes, wish. All is gone, and the lies of the Alexanders are about to be exposed, so what are you waiting for? I still choose to leave at the happiest moment, leaving happily in the white lie, Mrs. Cornell leaves like this, staring at the sky Kind children.
At the end of the film, Sigmund Jean, who has become a taxi driver, appears in front of Alexander. Faced with the idol of the past, the majestic astronaut has now become a taxi driver. Alexander is full of surprise and loss, his childhood He used to think that Sigmund Jean was the symbol of East Germany becoming the world’s advanced, but that was a bigger lie. This scene was full of irony and symbolic meaning, as if the lie was inevitable, and the loss after the lie was dismantled. It is also unavoidable. Whether our real people have also lived in lies, have faced the shock and even pain of the truth, are we also weaving good or evil lies for others? I don’t want to think about it and fall into depression, because optimistically, lies are not always hideous, just like Mrs. Cornell living in short-lived lies. White lies make her happy in the memory of ideal realization. Leaving, walking so peacefully, so satisfied...
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