Good Bye, Lenin!

In Lenin perspective is key. It is everything, both to Alex and his mother. In order to keep everything stress free Alex creates a lie that begins to grow exponentially. Though such a thing is impossible to keep going, he nonetheless keeps trying and eventually begins to see his lie as the truth. He rewrites history and creates the ending he thought it needed. His mother’s perspective is of an invalid who knows only of the world through her children and the “current” news on television. With ever suspicious notion she has, she is met with a convenient reason only a day later. This movie was somewhat vexing to me, but I began to enjoy it more than halfway through. It reminded me much of European narrated movies; casual and sometimes jarring with a subtle comical flare.