Blog 7: Favorite movie/ anime

Hi everyone!

I'm not a person who watches many movies, series or anime, but my favorite movie is "Good Bye, Lenin!"

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Good Bye, Lenin! is a german movie made in 2003 and the director of the movie is Wolfang Becker.

The story begins in East Germany, before the fall of the Berlin wall. 

The plot is bassed in Christiane, fan of socialist ideas and is member of Socialist Unity Party of Germany, who goes into a coma when his son Alexander Kerner is seen in anti-government protest. When she woke up, Germany was reunited and the socialist government fell.

From that point, the movie unfolds in how Alexander hides the fall of the wall so that his mother doesn't fall into a coma again by the emocional impact which can produce this historic event.

To do this, Alexander sets up a small socialist reality inside the apartment where they live, creating lies and convincing people to act as if nothing had happened.
I like this movie because it's interesting to see the tricks of Alexander to keep his mother happy. In addition, the fall of the wall is represented from a perspective of the East side of Germany, the cultural consequences of the division and the social differences between the two Germanies.

Another interesting point is the satire and criticism of the capitalist system, which is represented in how invasive the system can be in our personal circles and how it is impossible not to be part of it.

One of the most iconic scenes is when Alexander fakes an alliance between socialist Germany and the Coca-Cola company arguing that it was a strategic anti-imperialist alliance