The Baader Meinhof Complex starts off introducing you to Ulrike Meinhoff, who is a very respected German journalist. At the beginning, in roughly the late 1960s, she is reading off an article that she wrote about the abuse and unlawfulness of the Iranian government. When the Shah of Persia comes to Berlin, there are crowds of rioters outside protesting. The Iranian police force violently beat the innocent protestors and left one man dead. Andreas Baader is the leader of all the revolutions and uprising. Him and his group of followers named themselves The Red Army Faction (RAF). There uprisings start with setting a department store on fire with home made bombs. Baader gets some help from another activist, Gurdrun Ensslin. Rudi Dutschke …show more content…
At times it was sort of confusing because the subtitles wouldn’t line up with the scenes perfectly, but it didn’t totally throw off the movie. Also, I thought it was really cool to see Bruno Ganz in this movie as well. He played Hitler in The Downfall and then Horst Herold in this movie. The movie really shows how brutal and dark that period was in German history. The devastating bomb attacks showed everyone how fragile the German democracy was. The Baader Meinhof Complex was trying to create a more human society by using inhuman means that only ended up creating more horror, fighting and murder. Over the course of their objective, I feel like the members of the group lost sight on what their initial goal was. I think that they slowly lost their own humanity. I think this film was very instructive and worthwhile. It definitely gave a different approach and look at what had happened in Germany in the late 1960s and 1970s. The movie really showed how much violence and hate was running through the world at that time. Although the group was never larger than around 60 people, they had major impacts on the German
The movie and the book were both appreciable and they illustrated how important remembering is. I personally liked the book better because it had more details and I liked the characters better. I liked Gertrude and Aaron. I would recommend this book to 8th graders around the world because it fits their age. They need to know that remembering the past is essential and that the Holocaust did not just happen to Jews. Always remember, and never, EVER,
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
In its best moments, the movie is a strong, anti-war documentary. It has truly moving moments of bereaved loved ones, mangled bodies in the streets, incredulous soldiers in Iraq, angry Iraqis and innocent teenagers being manipulated into enlisting. In this way, the movie presents a version of the war on Iraq that isn't shown much in the media. It improves our understanding of the war by giving it a human face.
... still funny look into our recent history. With important issues that apply not only to the time the movie was made but possibly to our present and our future it offers a warning against war controlled culture and nuclear proliferation. This and the other themes of the movies are still worth considering today. The levels of hidden imagery in the film make it worth watching multiple times to try to find more of the levels and then to try to integrate them into the overall story. Like a painting by Dali you feel that every new thing you uncover has another waiting below it. The camera angles and lighting are tied into the film to turn the whole story into a smooth flowing work that is more pleasing to watch in black and white than most movies are in color. The overacting makes a few scenes in to movie difficult to watch but the rest of the film picks up the slack.
The characters have done a great job giving insight into what it must really feel like in WWII. The experience they gave during the film really shows great effort on love, pain and sorrow. But they all have a role to play because they are dealing with war and they want us to know what that feels like. Most people who are alive nowadays have never experienced what war was like so they figured to show and have people understand. Overall I think this film gave a good explanation of how things were back then and how things work now.
The first thing about this film that caught my eye from a sociological perspective is that the society in the film is not depicted as a “perfect society” as most films do, instead it shows the real conflicts that society had back then with certain subjects. The film shows us the prejudices, and misconceptions that people had about things like sex, and homosexuality at the time.
The Nazis are not portrayed in a good or friendly manner throughout the entire movie, especially during the La Marseillaise scene. When the German soldiers, led by Strasser, begin to sing their patriotic song, ?Die Wacht am Rhein? in French territory, it does not sit well with the French patriots. This singing represents the German invasion of France in their government, culture and territory because the Germans come into foreign land with their military and control all aspects of society. The movie depicts the soldiers as drunk and tone-dea...
I must say that this film is very traumatizing. There are some images in this film that will be burned and scarred into my mind for as long as I live. I have seen many holocaust films, but no one was as near as dramatic and depicting as Night and Fog. However I did like the theme of this movie. It is very sad but yet realistic. Our minds are murky and dull. We tend to only remember the important situation in our lives. Yet we don’t remember the importance of our own history. I say OUR history be cause we all are human beings on this earth. Whether we believe in Allah, Jesus, Jehovah, or whatever higher power, we are all one race, and that the human race. It is very sad to know that human beings were treated and slaughtered just because of an ideology of superiority complex. Al though the Jewish people were massacred I learned that we must always keep a sense of hope in order to assure our own survival. When I saw in the movie the moments where there were journals that read about favorite foods and important dates, my heart was filled with sadness. Not because these victims didn’t have this to eat but because of the false illusions that they had to dream in order to stay sane.
In Euripides’ play The Bacchae, the ideals that were the foundation of Greek culture were called into question. Until early 400B.C.E. Athens was a society founded upon rational thinking, individuals acting for the good of the populace, and the “ideal” society. This is what scholars commonly refer to as the Hellenic age of Greek culture. As Athens is besieged by Sparta, however, the citizens find themselves questioning the ideals that they had previously lived their lives by. Euripides’ play The Bacchae shows the underlying shift in ideology of the Greek people from Hellenic (or classical), to Hellenistic; the god character Dionysus will be the example that points to the shifting Greek ideology.
Mein Kampf was Adolf Hitler’s life story and his ideals about the world. The first nine chapters of the book explain how he got into his current predicament. Then he goes into great detail on why he dislikes the Jews and why all Germans should dislike the Jews as well. Hitler writes about the Jewish press and how they influence the society:
I feel that I gained a lot of perspective while watching this film. To be honest, I had never really thought of people denying the Holocaust, in my mind it seemed so silly. I didn’t know that people legitimately argued that the Holocaust never happened, because I just accepted it as a fact. Much like Lipstadt says, “The Earth is not flat”. The climate is changing.
As Oskar Schindler, Liam Neeson does an outstanding job of portraying a savy buisness man and a caring human being. Ben Kingsley plays his part with heart and cleverness. Ralph Fiennes is so completely believable as Amon Goeth. I would have never wanted to cross the path of that man. The people who played the jews were so convincing in their parts. This film truly has the feel of a documentary.
With some movies, for example, Japanese movies, they tend to change up the meaning of the words that have been said to better fit in with what is actually being said. Which is why I love to watch certain movies in English and then go back to compare it to the actual subbed version. This movie had lots of different angles to it for me that made reading every word important. One of my favorite scenes was when Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler started to cover up for Georg Dreyman the playwright in the film, and his girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland. Dreyman is asked by his friends to write an article about the suicide rate in Germany that is being covered up and it would be shipped off to the other side of Germany. Part such as this would have been great to have heard in English instead of dividing my attention between words and the actual picture, but even with all my experience in watching foreign films this talent still needs a certain amount of attention and effort to execute correctly to not miss anything that is going on or being
Although I enjoyed the main portion of the movie, there were some obvious likes and dislikes in my opinion. I believe that I learned from this movie and it helped me understand more of what the people of that time were feeling.
I view this as one of the few truly great movies of all time. I say this because it carries all of the basic cinematic elements that compose a great film. These elements begin with the characters. You can hardly expect to enjoy a movie if the characters are not believable. In this particular movie the characters were not only believable but you could identify yourself a little in one or all of the characters. One thing that can have an unfortunate detraction from even a good movie is anachronisms. The only one I found was a halogen bulb in a light fixture. However, I doubt anyone would notice were they not looking for one. This movie can be enjoyed by even the most mentally devoid of audiences. The reason for this is that most people do not like being bossed around or forced to do anything. It did make me think about how little freedom we actually have in life and how we all need to live just a little bit more.