Many reviews said it was a comedy full of dark humor. In order to protect his mother, Alexander rebuilt a GDR that had disappeared in real life - moved in an old radio, but had to break the antenna, put on clothes now regarded as garbage, the old East Germany, and made "Coca-Cola is social "Fake news"... He resisted a country that had already appeared, and resurrected a country that had disappeared. While struggling to deal with the endless new problems and new lives, he also worked hard to build a new life. In the old world, he clearly knew that history was irreversible, he knew that he was weak, but he refused to give up, clumsy, hilarious, but also movingly stubborn.
There are many contradictions and lies in the movie - the mother finally said the reason why her father fled to West Germany, not because she fell in love with another woman, but because she couldn't stand the political environment of East Germany, and she chose only for the sake of her children Remaining in East Germany, "married" to socialism. When Alexander was looking for the dismissed primary school principal to celebrate his mother's birthday, the principal admitted that although his mother's idealism was respected, several comrades in the organization believed that she was excessively idealistic and would cause trouble in the daily work of the school. , so she was fired. From this, we may be able to understand the reason why Alexander hugged his head and cried after learning the truth. When he was very young, his socialist mother also had the idea of fleeing the country he was trying to defend that no longer existed. From this, we may doubt that this belief, which was praised and promoted by the society at that time, was a slogan, a tool, a means, or a false spiritual dependence?
However, the film does not criticize and examine too much. It is like a narrator, slowly telling the warm story of an ordinary East German family in the historical background of the reunification of the two Germanys. The different living conditions of the East German people and their respective attitudes towards the reunification of the two Germanys. Some, like Alexander's father, crossed the border between the two Germanys and accepted another social system and way of life. Some people, like the old man who only appeared in the two garbage dump scenes, hated West Germany, thinking that "they betrayed us and betrayed us, making us joke in the garbage"; more people may be like Alexander Begin to accept the culture of West Germany and the way of life after the reunification of the two Germanys, but the ideal East Germany still exists in my heart. Of course, this acceptance or integration comes at a price: an astronaut regarded as a national hero becomes a self-supporting taxi driver, a dismissed elementary school principal becomes an alcoholic old man, and the once innocent "blue scarf" It began to be materialized, only for profit...
We did see the helplessness and loss of the East German people, but what left me in the end was a touch of uneasy moving, vaguely revealing hope. Alexander sees his childhood idol driving a small, dirty taxi, but the astronaut says to him "I know what you're thinking, so do many people, but I'm not one of those people"; Alexander in the building Mark, which was saved by his mother's hard work, was sprinkled on the top, but the fireworks to celebrate the World Cup championship broke the depression. He and Laura crouched on the roof to witness Germany's victory; although the pace of life is getting faster and faster, there is always silence and tranquility. A place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the new age and get a good night's sleep there.
"Anyway, I have to admit, I'm acting out my own script," Alexander said. "The GDR I built for my mother may be exactly what I wanted. This country has never existed in reality. This country, It is only when I remember my mother that I think of it."
I think every East German has a GDR deep in their hearts, which they don't often think about, but like their mother, they always miss.
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