The German Prime Minister's election campaign is in full swing, and it seems that it has transitioned from PK votes to doubts about the combination. How to form a coalition government is the most troublesome thing for Germans who are striving for reform this time. And one of the candidates for chancellor, Angela Merkel, the "Iron Lady" in German politics who is currently the chairman of the German CDU, gave me a moment's absence, not because she was unattractive, nor because she might become Germany's No. 1 A female chancellor, but her former East German life.
This female doctor from East Germany started her political career in 1989 and joined the CDU in 1990. Her past life in East Germany and her current political status made me absent-mindedly think of the film "Goodbye Lenin" - every country and nation has its pain, this film seems to tell people - living for ideals is actually Good.
When Alex was young, his father defected to the west of the Berlin Wall, and his mother Christina raised their children independently, and since then married herself to socialism and became a famous activist. On the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Alex's mother, who was on her way to a major event, was caught by the police while participating in a pro-democracy march. After witnessing the scene, she collapsed from a heart attack and fell asleep.
It was unfortunate and fortunate that she fell asleep, she missed the night of November 9, 1989, when thousands of East Germans were said to have seen real porn for the first time in a West Berlin cinema, plus Thousands of East German youths entered the disco for the first time.
After losing his job, Alex became an employee who opened a cable TV, his sister worked in a "capitalist" burger shop, and also found a West German guy who likes "performance art" to live with... Everything has changed, even the former aerospace company. Member, Alex's idol in his childhood, also drove a taxi to make a living.
Ten months later, my mother woke up suddenly, she wanted to eat Blingen Forest cucumber strips from East Germany (discontinued), it was hard to break Alex, so he started DIY, washed and dried out of the bin The original cucumber strip bottles were picked, distilled and sterilized, Dutch cucumbers were bought from the supermarket, and they were assembled and brought to my mother.
In order to protect his frail mother from stimulation, Alex decided to rebuild a GDR for his mother at home, so he and his buddies and colleagues started a full range of "sea, land and air" busy-wallpapers, carpets, curtains It’s still an easy thing to do; it’s a bit of a mouthful to ask my sister’s West German lover to cooperate; to conceal the news of the resignation of the Communist Party of Germany and the reunification of Germany, pretending that the Berlin Wall is still standing, and even falsifying TV news to continue to make it no longer exist The GDR is prosperous, which is indeed not something ordinary people can do.
At the same time, to satisfy his mother's social life as an activist, Alex goes to great lengths - wearing old clothes, paying actors to create scenes of teenage successors singing for the old revolution... Mother, what can I love you? The handsome guy who plays Alex is even more endearing because of this role.
The most dizzying scene in the film is when the sick mother walks out one day and is dazed by the outside world: giant Coca-Cola billboards, West German cars running down the street, neighbors with a West German accent... and The sculpture of Lenin waving forward in the square is being dismantled. When the sculpture lifted by the crane drifts away, people seem to hear the rapid breathing and heartbeat of the mother...
"Goodbye Lenin" was read a long time ago DVD, has been unable to take up the courage to write something. I heard that when the film was released in some parts of the world, the audience there regarded it as a comedy, which can only be explained because people with different life backgrounds have different viewing points. But that kind of living for ideals is actually quite good, but some people in this world have never experienced it.
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