...there are too many this year, it's been tough to keep up and maintain somewhat of a normal lifestyle. But my supercool and always fun girls and I decided to take in "The Lives of Others" at E St Theatre, which, even on a Sunday at 6, was quite full. Post-Oscar "how did we miss that movie?", no doubt. Several of us (not me) had seen Pan's Labyrinth and were waiting to see if this movie really deserved to best their beloved film.
Anyway, a fanstastic film about Stasi and East Germany during the Cold War. Not going to go through the plot but the acting was really wonderful, particularly the Stasi agent assigned to dig up dirt on a possibly subversive artist. I don't want to say it "humanized" the Stasi through this character by any means, but the actor (I'm being lazy and don't want to look him up) took him out of the role of automaton and made him into a complete, sad person without overdoing or pressing the cracks in his armor. The ending - eh, the slightest bit contrived, but only a small detail of the two characters almost meeting through implausible circumstances - but the last line of the movie "it's for me" will make you tear up. Or I'm just a real softie.
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