For a really good article about Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, click here.
For a summary of Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan), click here.
For ideas about how Brecht's play and Donnersmarck's film may be related, use your brain.
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Wasn't sure where to leave this so I posted it on the most recent Lives of Others topic.
I've been reading a book titled "The Great War for Civilisation- The Conquest of the Middle East". It's a half historical analysis half personal eye witness account of, "the events that have shaped the Middle East" written by one of the world's most acclaimed journalists Robert Fisk.
What struck me were the historical parallels between the events that are occurring now and those that occurred 85 years ago when Britain invaded the middle east.
The most clear example of this was an article published in the Sunday Times in August 1920, which , as Fisk says, could have been directed to Tony Blair 84 years later:
"The People of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated,insincere,incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows... We are today not far from disaster."
The relevance of this to the situation today just shows how important it is to go back and look at the events of the past, and it gives perhaps a little more gravity to the messages and themes expressed in "The Lives of Others"
I was just reading "Animal Farm" and when the animals are exploring the house for the first time they see a "lithograph", which im assuming is some kind of picture, of Queen Victoria. This reminded me of the portrait of Honecker in the interrogation room in "The Lives of Others."
Just a little something that i found interesting =D
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