[upstanding]

The Lives of Others is absolutely outstanding. Everybody on this thread should see it. Not just for the obvious look at surveillance issues, but for its expose on communism in practice: the personalities, the apparatus, the corruption, and the death of humanity. We'd be in a far better place right now if the idiots in Hollywood would have the balls to release a film that dared to eviscerate Lenin and ideologues the way "Lives" does. The entire film revolves around Lenin's statement about the Appasionata and the violent death of ones humanity in the face of ideology.

I've been telling everybody I know about that movie for the past several months. I watched it for the 5th or 6th time last Saturday and it really got to me in the wake of the White House's citizen snitch program. I was drafting a new thread to promote it on this site, but didn't want to be a noob posting a vanity thread.

[popdonnelly]

“We’d be in a far better place right now if the idiots in Hollywood would have the balls to release a film that dared to eviscerate Lenin and ideologues”

The idiots in Hollywood are neo-Marxists. See, e.g., Robert Redford. Don’t expect anything out of them except movies praising communists.