The lives of others: Beauty as a way to freedom*

In a time of mass surveillance, restricted movement, and citizens informing on each other for the “good of all”, where is freedom found? When the people are constantly told they’re under threat from a deadly adversary out to destroy their way of life, what place is there for questions? And what of the true believers who see the flaws but don’t know what to do?

This is the subject of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s magnificent The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), released …

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