Just seen The Lives of Others

[Herr Tubthumper]

cracking bit of kino.

 

[Les Biehn]

I thought it wasn't that great. Clumsy redemption story, 2 dimensional sadistic baddies and slightly melodramatic.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Oh well, world would be boring if we all liked the same things. I liked it. One of the common arguements is that it is a simple redemption flick....but there isnt really a lot to redemption other than...well...redeeming oneself.

 

[scotjem]

I thought it was very good.

(Gets that in quickly before this thread deteriorates into a drunken ramble like last week.)

 

[William Chops]

I've had my 'new thread' account disabled. The Stasi have nothing on North Stand Chat and the Dick Knight brown nosers.

 

[Meade's Ball]

It was the best film i've seen this year. Not hugely brilliant, but is well worth seeing anything that forces you to mentally and emotionally debate the sickening conflict between state politics and the enforcement of physical ownership. A really tangled almost televisual affair unfolds, embedded with constant social and sexual suspicion.
Parts seem corny, in a way, and some of the characters remain at an uncomfortable and untouchable distance, but any film thought-based and wrapped in endeavour must surely be worth a view. Or it was for me. Meade's_Ball recommends.