Good Bye Lenin Analysis

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov also known as Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary and politician. Lenin asserted that socialism corresponds to Marx’s first phase of communist society and communism proper to the second. He was heavily linked with communism therefore I think ‘Good Bye Lenin’ is an appropriate title for the movie. The named Lenin is used a reference to communism. And with the unification of East and West Germany in 1989 communism was leaving East Germany where Alex and his family lived. Good Bye or GDR would not be an appropriate title for the movie because just Good Bye would be inappropriate and meaningless. German Democratic Republic was a state in the in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period so that title would also be inappropriate for the movie. Honecker was the general secretary of the socialist party and before falling of the wall he resigned due to health reasons. Although Honecker was linked with communism his resignation right …show more content…
During and after the flight, he and the socialist authorities of the GDR named him "the first German cosmonaut”. His figure in the movie represents the non-necessity of professionals and educated people in East Germany. In East Germany where most of the things is censored so when he and his fellow cosmonaut about Sandmännchen marrying another toy figure of the Russia mascot Masha, authorities found the material unsuitable for the public. In the movie after unification he was forced to drive a taxi. He even tried to hide his identity in the movie when Alex looks at him by saying ‘I am not what many people think’ as if he was ashamed of who he was. It is still unclear from the movie though that the taxi driver was indeed him. Alex still convinces him to make a fake news report for his mother which features a rousing rendition of the GDR national