Written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, this is a German movie set in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It won the Oscar for best foreign film for 2006.
It is a very interesting film about a lonely secret agent who gets assigned the duty of spying on a young German couple. The husband is a playwright and his wife is a young pretty actress. It shows how the secret agent becomes engrossed in their lives - hence, The Lives of Others is the movie title.
I didn't know much about this movie when I began to watch it. I actually stumbled upon it. Like most things, if you have no idea what to expect, you are pleasantly surprised when the film turns out to be excellent, like in this case.
What do we live for? I think we live for others more than anything else. And we strive to be good. To be good human beings.
That is the point of life afterall.
I really liked Alice Sebold's last line in the novel - I think that the next time I even start to get angry, I will think about that last line. It gives me a lot of peace.
Even from Star Trek - Live Long and Prosper.
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