Goodbye Lenin

OmegaUnknow Says:

Jul 17, 2010 - @itsareligionofpeace Me too. I think if Honecker weren't Stalinist, DDR would exists right now and I bet It'd be a way better than the current Deutschland. without corrupt politicians, without theafts. I'd be wonderful.

itsareligionofpeace Says:

Jul 17, 2010 - @OmegaUnknow yes, i do remember that scene with the porn - the new found Western "freedoms".I think the point of this movie was to say that people are most satisfied when the belong to a community, where good people care about each other and don't just pursue selfish things, new fads.the DDR in the last few decades was a decent, good place - not too rich or too poor, just regular folks living decent lives. It's a place I would like to be.

OmegaUnknow Says:

Jul 17, 2010 - @itsareligionofpeace Don't forget German's porn lol. Remember that scene where east germans watched their first porn movie and they were like "WTF? I discovered something new o.O" lol.DDR was better than Westdeutschland ^^

muchtoocrazy Says:

Jul 12, 2010 - @Yora21 Ich hab's leider nie im Kino gesehen, nur noch ein Video irgendwo herumliegen...aber selbst auf 'nem TV-Bildschirm ist es super beeindruckend, und, ja, verstörend.

Yora21 Says:

Jul 12, 2010 - @Zeobit Oh my, I never noticed that he's not just going into the sunset, but it also means he's going into the west! That's brilliant. ^^

Yora21 Says:

Jul 12, 2010 - @muchtoocrazy When you watch it one the big screen, the scene is just incredible.

muchtoocrazy Says:

Jul 3, 2010 - the part where the lenin statue is flying and "staring" at her is so disturbing!

umaronnamia Says:

Jun 27, 2010 - Nice movie!

itsareligionofpeace Says:

Jun 26, 2010 - @zzukizzz The function of the Berlin Wall was border fortification, securing the border of one country East Germany from West Germany (West Germany for 45 years included a surrounded island of West Berlin).Socialist East Germany secured the borders of their nation - something Americans just can't seem to get it through their stupid #*%(# TV addicted heads that all nations that want to survive must do.We have a border with Mexico, I'll commission for East Germans to secure that border

zzukizzz Says:

Jun 26, 2010 - @itsareligionofpeace , Not a prison camp? Then what was the function on the infamous Berlin wall? Usually high walls with barbed wir are used to guard prison camps. Don't get me wrong, I am not a worshipper of the current left wing neo-bolshevik regime of the West either. But I do not think that in order to hate one you must necessarily love the other. Both are unacceptable to me!

itsareligionofpeace Says:

Jun 25, 2010 - @zzukizzz I used to think your way. But not any more.East Germany in the 80s, 90s was not a large prison camp. Nor was it Orwell's 1984, Stalin and Beria's USSR ~ 1935.Regular Germans in East Germany weren't being persecuted for Thought Crime, children weren't denouncing their parents as "Counter Revolutionaries" as in China in the Cultural Revolution.Instead it was regular, good German folks living simple, decent lives - no super rich or underclass poor. East Germans were nice folks.

zzukizzz Says:

Jun 25, 2010 - If you think that living in a socially secure prison camp is preferable to freedom, then it's your choice. But do not try to diminish the value of freedom. The fall of Berlin wall was a great historical event because it demonstrated the triumph of spirit and freedom over slavery and materializm. Of course, western capitalism is also bad, but at least the west did not have to build walls to prevent their people from emigrating to USSR or North Korea

zzukizzz Says:

Jun 25, 2010 - @itsareligionofpeace , then let us all go to prison. We will be safe, have jobs, be socially secure and so on. Life in a prison camp (of course, a humane one, not and Auszwitz type) certainly has its merits, doesn't it? But we wouldn't have FREEDOM, and that is the most important value. You have not grown up in the Soviet Union. It's like living in a huge prison camp: you are socially secure (at least until the government decide sto send you to Gulag, Afghanistan or Chernobil)

TheAhalover Says:

Jun 11, 2010 - i just loved that movie in many, many ways...

itsareligionofpeace Says:

May 17, 2010 - No it is you that haven't understood what makes a community a healthy, reasonably contented place.In the GDR society depicted in Good Bye Lenin - the regular people recognized their neighbors and identified with their neighbors. They struggled together and helped each other. There were not huge class differences with despised elites flooding their communities with alien minimum wage slaves. It was safe to send their children to local schools. Try that in Chicago, Los Angeles, Londonstan

rvgw Says:

May 15, 2010 - @itsareligionofpeace yeah, let's reintroduce the gdr to keep the evil immigrants out! you haven't understood a lot, have you? how could this comment get so many thumbs up?

Zeobit Says:

May 8, 2010 - God, this scene is sooo beautyfull!!! I love how Lenin seems to say "Come with me", before he goes westwards. And the music fits so perfectly!

JReed1985 Says:

May 8, 2010 - Sheiße, sie hat die Lenin statue gesehen. Schlauer sohn sie hat zu alles erklären. Sie verdient die wahrheit zu wissen.

nuWa88 Says:

May 5, 2010 - i love daniel bruhl, he is sooo cute, specially in this film :)

doitanywayz Says:

Apr 27, 2010 - what does the statue represent?

Schutz222 Says:

Apr 24, 2010 - 2:36-2:38 An epic scene..

Charlyzekid Says:

Apr 24, 2010 - This scene sends me chivers like I never got !

fascismexposed Says:

Apr 19, 2010 - Socialism will be removed from Britains streets in May.We will no longer be oppressed by the State.We will have our Liberty & Values restored.HAHAHA ANTIFA!

pertaton Says:

Apr 8, 2010 - increible peliculame encantó

TheTubeMouse Says:

Mar 22, 2010 - Wonderful surreal moment; the whole of this film seemed to be about illusion having its own truth. Great film!