Good bye Lenin! (2003)

A movie that I enjoyed so much is called “Good bye Lenin!”, I saw it in 2010, when I was studying in Bachillerato, and we needed see it because in my class of sociology we had to do an essay related to some aspect of the movie. It was filmed in 2003, and the actors who participated are Daniel Brühl (Alexander Kerner in the movie), Katrin Sass (Christiane, Alexander´s mother) and Chulpan Khamatova (Lara, Alexander´s girlfriend). 

It is a fiction film, but it´s mixed with reality facts, because the history is located between 1990 and 1991 in East Germany (ex-RDA), and the argument is about a guy who isn´t interested on political events of Germany, his mother is an activist of communist party of RDA, almost blind of the speeches, until she suffer a health accident after her son is arrested in a public protest, and she lose her memory. Alexander have to make a sense for himself about his reality and for his mother, he has to create an environment preserved just like it was before the accident of Christiane, because she is in bed when the wall fall down, and she doesn´t know nothing about political changes.  

Well, I like this movie because it suggest an event for reflections about the individual life before, during and after the “greats” changes in political and social issues, and otherwise, it presents (from fiction) a way to think that big processes like an absurd sometimes into the movie, so daily life doesn´t have those rhythms.