Today I saw two (technically three) movies, and the first of those three was The Lives Of Others. What an amazing movie. My roommate put it very well when she said that she forgot that she was reading subtitles. It's completely true. You will have no idea, watching this movie, that it's in a different language than you are used to.The Lives of Others is about love, duty, and sympathy. It comments gracefully and empathetically on the lives of Germans living in East Berlin - Germans who wanted to believe that their system was working and also those who were ready to rebel. It dealt with how people had to sell themselves to preserve their art, and give up some dignities to preserve what they loved the most. The movie is sad at times and tense at others. It is absolutely gripping.
Supposedly Pan's Labyrinth losing the Oscar to this movie was the year's big (also, only) upset at the Academy Awards, but I beg to differ. The only reason people think that is because The Lives of Others was lesser known. The Lives of Others is on par with any and all movies in the Best Picture category of what I would consider an excellent year for movies.
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It was still an upset because it was the underdog. The problem is that it shouldn't have been the underdog. Not enough people had seen it before the nominations.
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