| | One of my younger brothers http://deanreed.de/deutsch/index.html entertained in the Soviet Union and East Germany for many years. Hence I do considerable online schmoozing with folks who knew him and the countries he was living in. I asked one of them about the movie "Lives of Others."
She answered:
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About the movie "Lives of Others": I saw it about 18 months ago. So it's not fresh in my mind but I remember the discussions with friends and the attention in the media. There are different opinions on it here in Germany. Some of the people who had to suffer under the Stasi or who researched deeply about this topic didn't like the film so much. They said, there was no real person like the main role played by Ulrich Muehe: a Stasi agent who changed under the influence of the person he observed. They said that in the time of the 80's the Stasi couldn't exert pressure on an actress and tell her that she would never again play on stage if she denied to work together with the Stasi. - In my personal opinion it's a good film about life under a dictatorship. It's not a documentary - it's fiction. You can see how the state, the men in power use the "machine" to rule over the people. I think it's not only about the GDR, I think people who lived in countries like Argentina or Chile should watch the movie as well and they will feel their own emotions. I think the movie is "bigger" than the GDR. In every time - in every country - the machine of the state doesn't run automated, but through men. The question is how the law protects the human rights of the individual. In this point "our socialism" went wrong. The indiviual was an object to be ecucated and took care of... but not allowed to be a subject acting self-determinated.
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One reason she mentioned "Argentina and Chile" was Dean lived and entertained in South America before living and working in Spain, Italy... then moving to the socialist countries were he eventually died in East Germany.
Married three times, two daughters...lots of adventures. "Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful memory" as our Daddy used to say. But Dad's oldest(me) and youngest(Vern) are still going strong in our late 60's and early 70's.
Too bad Dean did not of live long enough to learn how the real world works. Actually maybe he did just before he drowned(or was drowned?) in a East German lake.
But Dean has the advantage that he will always look young all over the Internet. Dale
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