The Lives of Others - Free-market Film Analysis

We return to Castle Wolfenstein to discuss a film that depicts events that we once thought could never happen in the US.  Jon Reed returns to the show to talk about the Oscar-winning foreign-language film, “The Lives of Others,” a movie about a world in which there is no justice. In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), doubting that a famous playwright (Sebastian Koch) is loyal to the Communist Party, receives approval to spy on the man and his actress-lover Christa-Maria (Martina Gedeck). Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, then faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria and orders Wiesler to get the playwright out of the way. This will be a sobering discussion of a really well-done film. Next week we lighten the mood with the return of our friend Snobby Bobby as we celebrate Chinese New Year with a heaping helping of Kurt Russell in "Big Trouble in Little China". Show Notes:  http://www.lastnighters.com/162 Reel Unconventional Film Analysis. We use movies as a starting point for people who may not be familiar with this way of thinking. The point is to show what anarchy actually is with instances that are presented in film. SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS (or iTUNES)