Lives of Others

[da]

Excellent film. Stark, and my brain did a little short-circuit when the intro screen said it was set in 1984. The real 1984. This was during my lifetime. So weird. 23 years later, it's a place full of McDonalds and Sony and €. So weird. Of course I remember when the wall came down, seeing it on TV, talking about it in school; it seemed such an optimistic time.

Anyhow, I came out of the theatre to find a police car parked nearly blocking mine. In the dark, I couldn't tell what the driver was doing, but I could be reasonably sure that he wasn't going to threaten my family if I didn't tell him my secrets. In fact, he drove off as I got into the car, presumably so I could get out.

Then I went grocery shopping and all of the security cameras were staring at me.

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[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

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.