Better Late Then Never

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

One of the best German movies ever made, the Lives of Others shows one side of communism, but it does so with sincerity and a human touch. Highly recommended.

For everyone who's lived in a communist country it feels like traveling back in time. The oppressive feeling is there, the indiscriminate distrust, the mutilated human relationships. The second pair of eyes, the hamstrung friendship, the crippled love, the despair, the humiliation. It is not an easy voyage back, but it's worth every second of it for reminding us that any oppressive system needs our eyes and ears. Only if we remember, will we refuse to become accomplices once more. Thank you, Germany, for keeping the memory alive!

"Your missing this film means you necessarily did not live another human dimension of life". That's my simple suggestion,if expected,when it comes to this film.This probably is one of the films directed from first to last minute with the highest degree of intelligence and consciousness a human being can afford or perhaps have ever attempted to exercise. It's worth almost of fifty other films combined and you will feel that glint of humanity that is sublime,instinctive yet here is in distress and being challenged in such an overwhelming way that has only to be felt,ever represented in a film perhaps in the whole of film history.It can test one's breaking points,shake one's core principles that one snuggles deep inside.It teaches what humanity is with grueling and sometimes deeply undermining a test.It can break and penetrate one,it can lacerate one,it can consume one if one believes himself to be a human and;even if he doesn't believe himself to be human,this film will recommend that,that disbelief or desensitization is artificial and imposed thus is not inherently human and can afford to let a man be wavered.It is capable of stirring one's human feelings irrespective of the extent of exposure,hardening to inhumanity one has been or can be imagined to have been subjected to.

"The Lives of Others" left a strong impression on me about Germany during the time the wall was up and the Stasi controlled the lives of others. Although the movie had many complexities and themes, I will only touch on a few of the questions I had from the film and the main theme. There were a few things in the movie that did not make sense to me. Why did Wiesler remove the evidence from under the floor board at the end of the movie? This would have saved Dreymann but it would have ended Christa Maria. It seems like she would be imprisoned for lying. Why would Wiesler want Christa imprisoned? Did he like Dreymann better? My next question is why the mission ended after Christa committed suicide? Was this because the Stasi now felt bad for Dreymann or because they honestly thought he was innocent after not finding evidence under the floorboard?"The Lives of Others" had several main themes. I think the most important theme was what it means to be a good person. After watching this movie I can not help but look at people in my own life and think "that is a good man." I felt sorry for Wiesler, because he had no love. I saw the most character growth with him and by the end of the movie I think most people can agree that he is a good man. Dreymann seems to be a good man throughout the film and he grows as a character when he takes a stand against the Stasi. Christa Maria in my opinion, is a good person, she just has some personal insecurities. Overall, this was a well put together movie with many more elements and complexities and themes.