The Lives Of Others Analysis

The Lives of Others The movie begins with a scene of the ongoing process of an interrogation that turned out to be a lecture given by Captain Gerd Wiesler. This scene introduced background of the era that was portrayed in the movie. The movie took place in East Germany during the 1980s where Stasi government was in control. In this Stasi government, there was minimal or no personal liberty. The suspect was not allowed to sleep throughout the integration, which took place for 40 hours because Wiesler believes that the suspect was hiding something. The suspect no longer can do his will freely as the there were no personal liberty. Despite being interrogates for 40 hours straight, he could not sleep freely as he wish because he was forced to …show more content…
One of the scenes that depict the struggle would be when Christa-Maria was forced into a relationship with Minister. She was an actress yet she has no free choice in acting whatever she wants. She will have to be in a sexual relationship with the Minister despite having a writer boyfriend, Georg Dreyman, in order to continue her acting in the play. She has no freedom as her position was always threatened. If she was to go against the minister, she will lost her place as the actress and can no longer act. Thus, she has to conform to the sexual relationship the minister initiates with her. This is because the minister has the ultimate power to crush someone from his or her ongoing lives. The Minister can easily remove Christa-Maria from the acting world and she will no longer get the chance to act in the play. She has the talent and the capacity to be an actress, yet whether or not she gets to act solely depends on the Minister’s will. She lost her personal liberty as she was forced into doing something in order to keep her position in the acting world. What she plays is purely determined with the Minister and thus, she will have to conform to whatever the Minister’s requests …show more content…
This scene marks the transformation of Gerd Wiesler. The little boy with the football look up to Wiesler and ask whether or not he is working for the Stasi. The little boy continues to say that the father told him; Stasi is bad men that put people to prison. As a trained Stasi officer, his priority would be to protect the government by capturing people that degraded the name of the government. He was about to ask the little boy, what is his father name but he stopped. He was no longer the stern Stasi officer that will capture every person that talk bad about the government, rather he decided to let the person off the hook. That signifies the beginning of his transformation that results in the movie being progressed that way. If he did not transform, Georg will be long captured. If he did not transform, Georg’s story will not be published in the West Germany. This will not build up to the Berlin’s Wall being torn down years later that signifies the end of the Stasi government and it’s totalitarian system. Therefore, this is the most important scene in the movie, The Lives of