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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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[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)