“Goodbye, Lenin” is a movie set during the unification of West and East Germany. This movie is about a family in East Germany whose father left in 1978. The mother (Christiane) commits to and believes in the GDR East Germany system and is shown the next twelve or so years getting awards for support of the GDR. Christiane ends up falling into a comma and does not wake up in till after German unification. The doctor tells Christiane’s son (Alex) and daughter (Ariane) that she cannot afford to get her heart rate up or risk another heart attack. So Alex keeps the unification hidden from Christiane. In this review I am going to discuss the messages behind this movie, and talk about what the movie got right and wrong.
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Now at the same time Alex felt guilty for his mom’s condition because he was getting arrested when she had her heart attack. He felt in a way that he was responsible for her comma. So that was a part of the cover up of what happened but he also wanted to make the GDR look good. For example, he had his friend do a fake news report. Saying that East Germany were taking in West Germany refugees because of the bad conditions of West Germany. This was Alex creating a different GDR that were caring to take in the helpless. But it wasn’t how the normal GDR would work, Alex made it to what he had always dreamed the GDR could be. A better place to live and not as much in secret and spying. But Alex was not the only person hiding a huge secret. Christiane had always told her children that there dad left East Germany for another woman. She ended up telling the truth that he was really trying to get away from East Germany and had been writing letters to them the whole time. This was a huge shock to Alex and his sister but they never told her the truth about the Berlin Wall. Alex’s girlfriend ended up telling her near the end of the movie and she went along with into her death. Now let’s look at what was wrong or right with “Goodbye Lenin”.
The time table for these events did not really add up, for example the move from a communist market to a capitalist market
Throughout the movie you see …show more content…
Now at the same time Alex felt guilty for his mom’s condition because he was getting arrested when she had her heart attack. He felt in a way that he was responsible for her comma. So that was a part of the cover up of what happened but he also wanted to make the GDR look good. For example, he had his friend do a fake news report. Saying that East Germany were taking in West Germany refugees because of the bad conditions of West Germany. This was Alex creating a different GDR that were caring to take in the helpless. But it wasn’t how the normal GDR would work, Alex made it to what he had always dreamed the GDR could be. A better place to live and not as much in secret and spying. But Alex was not the only person hiding a huge secret. Christiane had always told her children that there dad left East Germany for another woman. She ended up telling the truth that he was really trying to get away from East Germany and had been writing letters to them the whole time. This was a huge shock to Alex and his sister but they never told her the truth about the Berlin Wall. Alex’s girlfriend ended up telling her near the end of the movie and she went along with into her death. Now let’s look at what was wrong or right with “Goodbye Lenin”.
The time table for these events did not really add up, for example the move from a communist market to a capitalist market