Goodbye Lenin!

While I am not sure what you mean by "notion of perspective," Goodbye Lenin is told from the oldest son's point of view. He seems to be a very caring man, but at the same time I don't think lying is the best way to help someone. He fabricated his and his mother's ideal way that their country should end up.While it made his mother very happy, what would have happened if she had actually found out? She confesed to her children of how she kept them from their father for fear of trying to leave the country. Could he not confess to her what he had done at that time too? This story gives the audience no clue as to what is going on in the back of all the characters minds. I am left puzzled about how Lara really felt about the situation. The audience can see the sister's and her boyfriend's initial reaction to having to lie to their mother, but after that one is left looking at their body language and depending upon what they say in the movie. One has no ideas as to how the mother is really feeling; part of the time it seems like she questions what she is watching as to if she believes it, but then the other part she seems pleased with what is going on in the world around her. So maybe it wasn't all that bad that her son had lied to her, but there would always be that worry of, "what if she finds out?"