In the movie "Beautiful Life", the hero and his five-year-old son are forcibly sent to a Jewish concentration camp, and the clever and optimistic male protagonist tricks his son into tricking his son into just a game, and the prize is a big tank, although living in the Nazi haze, the son is still happy.
Today to introduce you to a movie, the same is a lie made for love -
"Goodbye Lenin"
Good Bye Lenin!
The story takes place around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which is known to have been originally a barbed wire and masonry border wall, a symbol of The division of Germany and an important landmark of the Cold War.
On November 9, 1989, the GDR government announced that citizens were allowed to apply to visit the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, and the Berlin Wall was forced to open, and in June of the following year, the government officially decided to dismantle the Berlin Wall.
Before the Berlin Wall was demolished, the male protagonist Alex lived in East Germany with his mother and sister.
In 1978, their father fled to West Germany, and people from the unit came to the house to investigate, and the mother was so angry that she did not say a word.
As for his father's "disappearance", the mother only said that he had been seduced by a West German woman.
From then on, the family was never allowed to mention anything about her father, and my mother gradually came out of her pain, and she put all her energy into education.
She became a promoter of socialist progress, opposing all inequality, and of course, she did not allow those around her to speak ill of East Germany.
Soon, Alex grew up, and he began to have his own thoughts, his own pursuits, and beliefs.
One day, he and his children took to the streets to march, unfortunately, his mother witnessed him being caught by the police in the car, and his overly frightened mother suddenly suffered a heart attack and fainted on the ground.
The doctor diagnosed that the mother's condition was not optimistic, and she might be in a coma for a long time, so she asked the Alex sisters and brothers to prepare for the worst.
However, no one expected that during the days when her mother was in a coma, Germany underwent earth-shaking changes, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the unification of East and West Germany.
On Alex's first trip to West Germany, in the materialistic capitalist world, he felt an unprecedented cultural collision, and he simply found a job in West Germany.
After another 8 months, my mother finally woke up.
However, the doctor said that the mother was not completely out of danger, and she still needed to recuperate, especially not to be stimulated.
Alex suddenly thought that her mother still did not know the situation outside, and if she knew that the East Germany she had loyally supported was no longer there, she might really not be able to sleep.
When he woke up, his mother offered to go home, which made Alex nervous.
Moving her toes and toes, I knew that as long as my mother stepped out of the hospital door, everything would be clear.
In order not to stimulate his mother, Alex decided to restore his mother's living conditions before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to try his best to hide the fact that East and West Germany had merged.
So Alex and his friends restored their mother's room as quickly as possible, went to the old goods market to find a lot of old clothes and came back.
In order to prevent his mother from having access to the outside world, he transported her directly home in a medical cart, preventing her from having a chance to chat with her neighbors, and falsely claiming that the radio was broken.
My mother, who had just returned home, offered to eat cucumbers with Spreewald sauce, Mocca-Fix coffee, and Filinchen waffles, all of which were the products of the former East Germany.
When Alex asked the clerk about the goods, they thought he was a neurotic who had come to make trouble.
Socialist department stores closed overnight, familiar trademarks vanished in an instant, replaced by capitalist supermarkets.
In desperation, Alex had to rummage through the garbage can, and when he found an empty glass of a Spreewald sauce cucumber, he had the opportunity to decide to pour the Dutch sauce cucumber into the bottle.
So he collected a lot of empty glass bottles, sterilized them, changed the labels, and then changed the bottles and sealed them.
Watching his mother nibble on the cucumber with satisfaction, Alex let out a long sigh.
Because the times changed and the currency needed to be unified, the citizens of the former East Germany had to transfer or exchange their deposits for checks, and Alex and his sister were anxious to find their mother's deposits.
They needed their mother to sign the authorization, and the mother felt inexplicable, and Alex could only talk nonsense that the family needed to buy a car, but after the mother signed, she couldn't remember where the money was.
After a toss, when the sisters and brothers finally found the banknotes and rushed to the bank, the staff told them that the exchange deadline was early.
The 30,000 marks saved over forty years were thus wiped out.
Furious, Alex ran to the rooftop and threw all his family's savings into the street.
Mother's demands seemed endless, and Alex worked while making lies, which had just passed a round, and then new problems arose.
For example, if the mother offers to watch TV, they have to go to the library to find the video materials they have recorded before, but what about the current affairs news?
He directly let his friend cosplay radio anchor, self-directed and self-produced East German version of the "news broadcast", in order to maintain his mother's faith, Alex almost exhausted all imagination and funny ability, each time is dangerous.
For example, on his mother's birthday, he first paid two street children, pretended to be students that his mother had taught before, and bribed his mother's former colleagues, friends, and neighbors to come to the house.
When everyone was huddled in their mother's room, singing East German songs, the mother showed a smile that had not been seen for a long time.
It was at this time that my mother saw a huge coca-Cola advertisement hanging outside the window.
Everyone panicked, and Alex could only ask the child to continue singing.
In order to reassure his mother, Alex and his friends fabricated a fake news overnight - "The original recipe of Coca-Cola was developed in the 50s of the East German laboratory."
He also described the crowds that poured through the Berlin Wall as a major historical event in which "West Germany fell and East Germany accepted the West German people," and believed that his mother expressed deep sympathy for these devastated compatriots and pondered how to help them.
The whole film is weaving lies and covering up endless flaws, and at first it feels full of jokes, only to find out later that it is a game of love and a nostalgia for a bygone era.
There is a particularly classic scene in the film, when the mother walks out of the house and walks alone on the street, she sees a lot of new things that she has never seen before, and the whole person is frozen.
At this moment, a helicopter dragging Lenin's bust flew past her eyes, as if waving goodbye to her.
This also tells the true meaning of the title "Goodbye Lenin", goodbye has the dual meaning of seeing each other again and not seeing again.
As Lenin's bust disappears into the sky, the audience feels a sense of historical shock, and what rings in our ears is no longer the music full of sadness, but the farewell elegy of a past era.
After that day, her mother had noticed the strangeness around her, but she did not say anything, and when she returned to the country house to play, she told the secret that had been buried in her heart for many years.
In fact, Alex's father did not cheat that year, but because he did not join the party for a long time, he was ostracized in the unit.
The two had already planned to go to West Germany together, but before they left, Alex's mother hesitated, not thinking that this hesitation had become a farewell.
At the end of the film, Alex's girlfriend secretly tells the truth to her mother, but the mother does not puncture her son's lies and allows him to "create" a grand national day for himself.
Three days later, her mother died of a serious illness.
In accordance with her mother's wishes, Alex packed her ashes in fireworks and shot them into the sky.
The film is a warm and romantic drama film, which will be misled by the title at first, only to find out after watching the movie that it cleverly integrates the characters and sentient beings in the turbulent era into an ordinary family, full of laughter and tears.
Of course, it is not a pure comedy, it gives the audience a deep thought, in the long river of history, the times can not change, only the family affection is eternal.