The Lost Honor Of Kattherina Blum Analysis

During the 1960s and 1970s in Germany, there was a new era beginning. This era started with student’s movement. During those years, the younger generation start asking questions. They believed that their parents didn’t do the right thing, and instead of fighting Hitler and not letting him do whatever he wants, they just stayed quiet and so he did whatever he wanted. One of the groups that were fighting the government and generally older generation, and were hoping for a change, were Lefties. But one problem with them was the fact that some of them turned to terrorist acts, and so the government see it as its responsibility to fight back. They start to investigate as many people as possible. According to Jack Zipes “Since 1971, over 800,000 …show more content…
Although in The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, there’s a more obvious line between good and bad people and their actions. In this film, police and the press are the negative side and Katharina is the heroine. But at the same time, we can see that there’s one or two good police officers, and also people who are Katharina’s “friends,” all of them are not really that much of good people. But this line is not as obvious in Marianne and Juliane. In this movie, while Marianne is a terrorist, at the same time in some parts we can see, she was not born or raised that way, and she was actually a nice and kind person, and the fact that she’s the person that she is today, was the outcome of the society itself. She was her dad’s favorite, she was well behaved in school and was trying to stay away from trouble and just follow the rules of the school, family, and the …show more content…
And as the same way that Juliane tries to stay away from Marianne and all of those troubles, but she’s not able to, Germany was also trying to avoid its past and run away from it, but it was not able to. The student movement started because the young generation was blaming their parents and older people for everything that happened during Hitler’s time. As Von Trotta puts it “we were quick to push aside guilt and responsibility. The tendency in public life not to admit feelings of guilt at all, or at least to forget them as quickly as possible, still exists.” For most of Germans, they wanted to put aside everything and anything that was associated with the war and move on. They wanted to start a new chapter, a new Germany. They were under all these pressures from all these other countries and people who were blaming them for everything and so they wanted to just move on. They wanted to build a new Germany so maybe everyone could forget about the past and just move