DAS DAS LEBEN der ANDEREN (THE LIVES OF OTHERS)

We've often ask to ourselve, are we good people or bad people? Can we bacome a good one? This film perhaps can give us a little answer to the question. If we are willing to be good, so we can be good. Willing to do something good, open ourselve to the existense of others. Because of it we can see the other side of live. The film is winning on the Oscar Foreign Best Film that beat the Pan's Labiryrinth. And on the German Film Award, Das Leben took 11 nomines, such as director, story, and actor. A new record on the German Film Award. A beautiful film with the setting of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's tell us Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe), a Statsi (State Secret Police), whom assign to spy a couple Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria (Martina Gedeck) which assumed as West Germain Aktivis. Later, after Hauptmann know the real motives under the assignment, he gets more involved into the couple's live that he has to spy. He get his concest, the truth meaning of purpose of his live. It's very interesting to watch Hauptmann's character forward, that roled fantasticly by Ulrich Muhe.He can transform the ice cold man, into the warmly man because of the good things he have done. His cold character is strongly shown from the place he live in and how he express his sexual needs. An interesting scene shown when Hauptmann had to face direct interogation with Christa Maria under supervision by his boss. A very emotional and thrill scene for me. Score Sonata for A Good Man that arranged by Gabriel Yared give the film its soul. Sonata for A Good Man, should be the tittle for the film, but in the end they used The Lives of Others. Which is Sonata for A Good Man is more describe the content of the film. Georg Dreyman use the Sonata for A Good Man as the tittle on the book he wrote. Which he dedicated to a man who save his live. A sweet ending, as the sweet of Hauptmann's smile at the end of film. It's become the one of the good film that I saw in the year of 2007. 4.5/5

(bilingual by marliy)