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Das Leben der Anderen Critique

example · film: Das Leben der Anderen · retold in 3 talks

Critiques the film for showing horror only when a corrupt minister wants to screw a wife, ignoring that the horror of the GDR was total observation regardless of individual corruption.

2015: 1 talk 2019: 2 talks
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“The horror of the German Democratic Republic was that you would have been under total observation even if no minister wanted to screw your wife”
“In real GDR, he would have been under total police control as all their big names were, Brecht and so on, even if no minister wants to fuck your wife.”
9:36 Taking Donald Trump Seriously2019-10-20 · 1:41:03
“the movie is too soft on the regime. the point is to be brutal and tasteless that in a country like GDR, even if no minister wants to fuck your wife, you would have been under total observation”
8:39 Stalin: Paradox of Power2015-03-31 · 1:36:09

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Critiques the film for showing horror only when a corrupt minister wants to screw a wife, ignoring that the horror of the GDR was total observation regardless of individual corruption., illustrating systemic evil,ideology
9:36 Taking Donald Trump Seriously2019-10-20 · 1:41:03
The Oscar-winning German film about Stasi control is criticized for being not anti-communist enough: in reality, a writer of that stature would have been under total surveillance regardless of whether a minister wanted to sleep with his wife., illustrating personification of guilt,institutional evil versus individual corruption
8:39 Stalin: Paradox of Power2015-03-31 · 1:36:09
Žižek argues the Oscar-winning GDR film is too soft on the Stasi regime because it premises surveillance on a private vice (a minister coveting a man's wife), whereas the point is that in the GDR, total surveillance was the norm regardless of any private motive., illustrating bourgeois liberal approach to political evil,politics shapes personality