Edukators & Good Bye Lenin

The movie Edukators was a very impactful movie. The position of the Edukators was a very powerful and moving voice. They were truly fighting and supporting a heartfelt position that is really relatable to the general population. The conversation between Jan and Hardenberg in the cabin about how he spends his money and how the whole population is blinded by television really stuck out to me. It made me want to be a better person; it made me want to try harder to do for others. On the opposite side, the conversation Hardenberg had about when he was younger and how growing up and caring for a family changes your whole outlook on life hit home base too. I'm getting married this winter and I recently bought a house this last spring so I the thought of losing sight on my original morals and goals is a very intense thought to sit on. In the end, as things get thicker for me (kids), I probably won't stay as steadfast as I would like to, but I know that I wouldn't be the one to send the cops looking for Jan, Jule, and Peter.

The movie Good Bye Lenin did not strike me as interesting of a story as Edukators did. It does a good job of making you care about the main character Alex from the very beginning, but it did not strike deep into me. I did learn through it though that there did seem to be a fair amount of East Berliners that did not care for the loss of the GDP. It was mostly the youth that did not care for the GDP and fought against it. The older generation seemed more content and felt that change was a bad thing. These are very common views that you see in all places. The story took a turn when you find out that Alex's father was not who they made him out to be and that he was very much indeed a loving, caring father; just one more depressive thing to add to the Kerner family's problems. The ending was troubling for me because even though Alex had created a world that his mother would have loved to see happen, you can see that she knows the truth about it all by the way she looks at him. I know that the point is that she's happy to have a son that loves her enough to go to such lengths but it just troubles me that the lie was upheld to the very end.

The similarities between the two movies (besides having two of the same main characters in both) would lie in how the youth vie for change. They aim to change what they see as bad in the world around them. Not everyone feels the same about what's wrong in the world and so it creates a conflict.