Lives of Others

When watching a foreign film I was at first confused, then later throughout the movie it all came together. I was unsure about the motives of the characters but as the movie continued the more and more I understood the general concept the director was trying to portray. The first day the class began watching the movie I was not that interested to be truthful until the second day the movie was continued. It seemed insane to me on how someone could live that long and never know their whole life was being recorded by complete strangers who were suspicious of the actions.
In the movie Lives of Others it was extremely interesting seeing how the roles of the characters changed over time. At first I believed Christa Maria was going to leave Dreyman for the other man. Seeing how much her life was devoted to her boyfriend after all these negative influences attacking their life shows that everyone can make it, as long as you put in all potential effort. The subtitles made me pay more attention to the different scenes and caused me to be intrigued in the movie. Overall I believe the movie was very powerful and should be showed to other classes.

Noelle Melberg