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[andrewducker]

Just back from Der Untergang (Downfall) - a german made film about the final days of WWII, set in and around Hitler's Bunker.  It mixes explosively impressive action sequences with the unpleasant claustrophobia of a group of people stuck in an ever-tightening noose, made worse because not all of them realise how bad things are.  The higher-ups are split between realists who can see what is coming, idealists who believe they can be saved and a few who are clearly insane (Hitler varying back and forth between all three of these groups - I've heard that he was being treated with amphetamines, and he certainly comes across that way).

Highly, highly recommended.  I was deeply touched and poisonduk cried.

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[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

might go see it this weekend methinks.

From stuff I've read, Hitler was very "medicated" by the end, though not as much as Churchill, who was very full of drugs and alchohol, and got something like minutes of sleep each night for large chunks of the war.

[oldbaldchris.livejournal.com]

Films better in german :)

[andrewducker]

It was in german. It just had little white words in English at the bottom :->

[oldbaldchris.livejournal.com]

Omg , you sat through a whole film reading subtitles?? , OK ,
I admit it , I`m impressed.
If I can`t listen to a film , I can`t watch it - subtitles give me headaches.

[andrewducker]

Might be time for an eye test.

I've seen loads of subtitled films - doesn't bother me at all.

Mind you, I'm used to staring at words on a screen all day (and most of the evening)

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I saw it when it opened here in Germany, and was really impressed. Especially so because afterwards, the entire packed movie theater just sat there, stunned. Eventually, people started getting up and making their way out of the theater without a single word. I've never seen a reaction like that at a movie theater, especially not a big, commercial one like the one where I saw that movie.