Good Bye Lenin! (2003) by Wolfgang Becker (REVIEW)

Goodbye Lenin! (2003) Christiane Kerner experiences an infarction shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and falls into a coma that lasts for eight months.

Years earlier, her husband escapes to western Germany after which Christiane ends up in hospital and fills her emotional cavity with activism for her beloved country she believes in. After waking up from a coma, doctors say her condition is not stable and any harassment can endanger her life.

Thus, her son, Alex, makes incredible efforts to hide from her that the wall has fallen and has been altered to keep her alive.

This German film is a story about the love of the family and at the same time it represents a return to the fall of a system and the rise of another. I thought he would take a side, mock one system and magnify the other, but luckily it was not, the film has found a way to mock the absurd in both systems. The film is filled with humor that is difficult and not for everyone, I think it's one of the funny sad movies I've watched.

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