Comments on: Das Leben der Anderen http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/das-leben-der-anderen/ Movie reviews from festivals, the IMDb Top 250, and more. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:11:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: TravisBickle http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/das-leben-der-anderen/#comment-131 TravisBickle Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:12:33 +0000 http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/the-lives-of-others/#comment-131 I reviewed this on FW lately and agree with you both, it really blew me away. Superb acting and a great feeling of intensity throughout. It was also a close run thing for me between this and <em>Pan's Labyrinth</em>, I'm not sure I could place one above the other though. Whilst we're talking about del Toro, I had the good fortune to catch one of his earlier films the other night on TV called <em>El Espinazo del Diablo</em> (<em>The Devils Backbone</em>) which was a really excellent and stylish ghost story. It's set in an orphanage at the end of the Spanish civil war and is very eerie and beautifully shot. Well worth a watch if you can find it, 4 stars from me. I reviewed this on FW lately and agree with you both, it really blew me away. Superb acting and a great feeling of intensity throughout. It was also a close run thing for me between this and Pan’s Labyrinth, I’m not sure I could place one above the other though. Whilst we’re talking about del Toro, I had the good fortune to catch one of his earlier films the other night on TV called El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devils Backbone) which was a really excellent and stylish ghost story. It’s set in an orphanage at the end of the Spanish civil war and is very eerie and beautifully shot. Well worth a watch if you can find it, 4 stars from me.

]]> By: Hanna http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/das-leben-der-anderen/#comment-38 Hanna Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:00:06 +0000 http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/the-lives-of-others/#comment-38 Glad you liked it. I hope more people get to see this. It's been almost three weeks and it's still on my mind. Glad you liked it. I hope more people get to see this. It’s been almost three weeks and it’s still on my mind.

]]> By: Joost http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/das-leben-der-anderen/#comment-37 Joost Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:56:53 +0000 http://shoottheglass.net/2007/03/09/the-lives-of-others/#comment-37 I'm very much with you here. I would probably give it 4.5 or perhaps even 5. Wiesler was played extremely well and most of the other characters were very believable as well. I think it really got to the heart of the Stasi/DDR's problems: everyone was an opportunist of some sort, which automatically makes the system itself fallible. And the ones who actually realize that something may be wrong take the fall. Great acting and the cinematography was perhaps even better (I couldn't stop thinking about Futurama's neutral planet "go to beige alert"...). I’m very much with you here. I would probably give it 4.5 or perhaps even 5. Wiesler was played extremely well and most of the other characters were very believable as well. I think it really got to the heart of the Stasi/DDR’s problems: everyone was an opportunist of some sort, which automatically makes the system itself fallible. And the ones who actually realize that something may be wrong take the fall.

Great acting and the cinematography was perhaps even better (I couldn’t stop thinking about Futurama’s neutral planet “go to beige alert”…).

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