The most touching thing is the back of his last resolute move...

Camylle 2022-04-21 09:01:21

In the calm, I saw that after the agent rescued the writer, he was also banished to the basement to open the envelope. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he failed to improve his life. The life at the bottom of the house, delivering letters from family to family, with a calm face, a calm face, and a straight back when pulling a trailer on the street, never being overwhelmed by life, still moving forward so resolutely, that back image is like a warrior going to the battlefield

Maybe this is really a cliché story, but isn't it more difficult to tell a cliché story so wonderfully and profoundly?

I really like the actor of the male lead, but I found out that he has already passed away after a search, and my heart hurts...

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Extended Reading
  • Emil 2022-03-19 09:01:03

    As an autocratic patient, what should I do to save my soul? After watching it, tears really broke!

  • Leif 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    Using articles instead of meeting made me almost burst into tears! "NO! THIS IS FOR ME."

The Lives of Others quotes

  • Oberstleutnant Anton Grubitz: I have to show you something: "Prison Conditions for Subversive Artists: Based on Character Profile". Pretty scientific, eh? And look at this: "Dissertation Supervisor, A. Grubitz". That's great, isn't it? I only gave him a B. They shouldn't think getting a doctorate with me is easy. But his is first-class. Did you know that there are just five types of artists? Your guy, Dreyman, is a Type 4, a "hysterical anthropocentrist." Can't bear being alone, always talking, needing friends. That type should never be brought to trial. They thrive on that. Temporary detention is the best way to deal with them. Complete isolation and no set release date. No human contact the whole time, not even with the guards. Good treatment, no harassment, no abuse, no scandals, nothing they could write about later. After 10 months, we release. Suddenly, that guy won't cause us any more trouble. Know what the best part is? Most type 4s we've processed in this way never write anything again. Or paint anything, or whatever artists do. And that without any use of force. Just like that. Kind of like a present.

  • Georg Dreyman: The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3, how many books I read a year: 3.2 and how many students graduate with perfect marks: 6,347. But there's one statistic that isn't collected there, perhaps because such numbers cause even paper-pushers pain: and that is the suicide rate.