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Hopefully, Academy members will rightfully award the Oscar tomorrow night for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (2006) to ‘The Lives of Others.’ Writer/Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s debut stands head and shoulders not only over the other nominees, but also over all the nominees for Best Record. That so-called ‘best’ list pales in comparison to the heights attained by von Donnersmarck’s creation. It is a expertly-plotted, richly-told depiction of life under the dominion of the East German spying apparatus, the Stasi.
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‘Lives’ tracks the Stasi’s efforts to bug and disrupt the lives of writer Georg Dreyman (a striking Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (the incomparable Martina Gedeck) . Assigned to the case is Stasi agent, Gerd Wiesler, indelibly played by Ulrich Mühe. The reasons for spying on Dreyman and ‘CSM’ (as the Stasi calls her)? A Politburo minister has the hots for CSM. That’s it. For that most personal of reasons, lives are ruined. A professional reviewer of ‘Lives’ really hit the nail on the head when he said that the movie turns on the fact that Weisler realizes he is spying into the life of a man who is ‘vastly his suitable obedient.’ That’s it. You gain propelled into Dreyman’s life and you are struck immediately and permanently by his decency and the quality of his character. Over time, Weisler starts injecting himself into the proceedings. At that point, the sequence of events is irrevocably changed.
von Donnersmarck’s movie is a continual series of one enormous scene after another. I plan perhaps it had reached its denouement with the descend of the Wall. But it keeps getting better. Dreyman requests his Stasi files. He begins to portion together the record and the role of Weisler.
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‘The Lives of Others’ is 137 minutes of the best entertainment imaginable. Ulrich Mühe is an East German who himself was the target of Stasi oversight. For this film, he was awarded Best Actor at the 2006 European Film Awards. Is there a more honest triumph than that?
I often don’t agree with Oscar choices, but this time they got it moral.
“The Lives of Others” is one of the most engrossing movies about communism that I have seen in a decade; it shows, as few others have, how communism suffocates human imagination…not impartial stifles political dissent.
A witness – Captain Wiesler – is given the task of eavesdropping on a well known playwright, not for political reasons, but because a communist boss is jealous of the man and wants his female lover for himself. As the eye begins listening in, he begins to expect the values of his society and the integrity of his orders.. Up to that point, Wiesler dutifully obeyed without interrogate. But as the leer continues to experience the world of the playwright, he starts to live the subject’s life vicariously…so the enemy ironically becomes the friend. The experience helps Captain Wiesler grow in humanity so he ultimately makes the decision to accelerate interference to build the playwright’s life.
The film details the transformation of an organization man in a hostile society…and makes us remember the ample books of totalitarian dangers such as Animal Farm, Anthem, Bold Current World, and of course, 1984. (It is no accident that the key YEAR in which the events seize plot in this film is indeed 1984) . Instead of leaving the viewer in a plot of deep negativity, “The Lives of Others” gives us reason to hope, reason to maintain that goodness may prevail over corruption. So by the demolish, I was deeply moved.
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