How To Write An Essay About The Movie The Lives Of Others

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I have always been one to spend my time watching things that others wouldn 't think to watch. I have seen things like “The Wind Rises” by Hayao Miyazaki, “Queen” by Vikas Bahl and my favorite “Mary Kom” by Omung Kumar. From documentaries to animes, to silent films. I have dabbled in a little of everything so far. I am known to watch a few of these to pass my summer as well. So, when it came time to watch the foreign film “The Lives of Others” directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, I was fully aware of what to expect. From the subtitles to funny English accents, to sharpening my skill of being able to read the words and focus on the action at hand. You could say I 'm somewhat of an expert in those areas. Thank you anime! The movie was …show more content…

I thought it would be a movie about how Weisler made the youth of the nation into Stasi members. Maybe show us how the tactics he used in the beginning of the movie were used throughout history. I was always interested in these things, I even went home and told my family and friends about the movie we were watching and I made sure they were just as excited as I was. When we had gotten done watching this film, I was most definitely thrown for a loop and so much more into the movie than I originally thought I would be. A movie that helps to project this fact is the movie “Mary Kom”. This movie is about one of India’s most well-known female boxer’s, who makes history by winning the gold medal in Women’s International Boxing and even though she faced difficult choices and circumstances from being a woman in a predominantly male sport, she came out on top. She battles with men telling her she will never be good enough, her outrageous temper, her father who doesn’t believe his one daughter should be out with men, learning the ways of a man. He thinks that she should be home helping with the family, learning how she can become a better woman and eventually get married to someone who can not only take care of her but her family. This movie was mostly a documentary on this woman named “Mary Kom”, but the way it was portrayed to …show more content…

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

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