{"id":569,"date":"2010-03-04T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:23:00","slug":"the-lives-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/the-lives-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lives of Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished watching <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0405094\/\">The Lives of Others<\/a><\/strong>. That makes two subtitled foreign films this century! Awesome. It&#8217;s the story of a secret policeman with the East German <em>Stasi<\/em> and a couple he is assigned to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no good at movie reviews, so I won&#8217;t try. I think the story and the characters were both excellent. There is almost no &#8220;action&#8221; &#8212; and yet at moments your heart is pounding because of the intensity. (More like a thriller or old-school horror movie, in that way.) No special effects, no CGI.<\/p>\n<p>The main character is Gerd Wiesler, played by the late <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulrich_M\u00c3\u00bche\">Ulrich M\u00c3\u00bche<\/a>. His life story is interesting in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I saw this movie. It&#8217;s an excellent critique of the totalitarian state &#8212; the best I can remember; perhaps as good as <cite>Animal Farm<\/cite>. But it&#8217;s also an enjoyable movie to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished watching The Lives of Others. That makes two subtitled foreign films this century! Awesome. It&#8217;s the story of a secret policeman with the East German Stasi and a couple he is assigned to investigate. I&#8217;m no good at movie reviews, so I won&#8217;t try. I think the story and the characters were both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-9b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}