Sometimes I forget just how excellent your writing can be. *smooch*
To me, it's not just that it's from 1984. It's that only five years separate the film from the Wall falling. My sister visited East Berlin, crossing at Checkpoint Charlie, when she was a foreign exchange students in '87; three years later on my first trip to Europe, the Wall was gone.
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Date: Monday, 16 April 2007 03:43 am (UTC)To me, it's not just that it's from 1984. It's that only five years separate the film from the Wall falling. My sister visited East Berlin, crossing at Checkpoint Charlie, when she was a foreign exchange students in '87; three years later on my first trip to Europe, the Wall was gone.