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Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: Barman on June 29, 2008, 07:00:00 AM
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Finally got around to watching this last night!
What an amazing, startling, stunning, shocking movie! eeek:
The riveting subject of Downfall is nothing less than the disintegration of Adolph Hitler in mind, body, and soul. A 2005 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, this German historical drama stars Bruno Ganz as Hitler, whose psychic meltdown is depicted in sobering detail, suggesting a fallen, pathetic dictator on the verge on insanity, resorting to suicide (along with Eva Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels) as his Nazi empire burns amidst chaos in mid-1945. While staging most of the film in the claustrophobic bunker where Hitler spent his final days, director Oliver Hirschbiegel dares to show the gentler human side of der Fuehrer, as opposed to the pure embodiment of evil so familiar from many other Nazi-era dramas. This balanced portrayal does not inspire sympathy, however: We simply see the complexity of Hitler's character in the greater context of his inevitable downfall, and a more realistic (and therefore more horrifying) biographical portrait of madness on both epic and intimate scales. By ending with a chilling clip from the 2002 documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, this unforgettable film gains another dimension of sobering authenticity. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Yeah, yeah, all that and more too… I think it is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen – the acting of Bruno Ganz is quite remarkable in the depth of his passion… I was left breathless…
If you never plan on watching another film in your life you should see this one first…
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rubschin: I may rent it then.
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rubschin: I may rent it then.
Worth seeing however you obtain it... happy088
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I've just worked out what I have watched on TV in the past week. The second half of a football match involving Germany and ........ er ........... some other country. There was a thunder storm somewhere that interferred with the pictures for a while and they substituted comentary from Radio Five Live whilst the problems were resolved...... That's it.
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I've just worked out what I have watched on TV in the past week. The second half of a football match involving Germany and ........ er ........... some other country. There was a thunder storm somewhere that interferred with the pictures for a while and they substituted comentary from Radio Five Live whilst the problems were resolved...... That's it.
Um... rubschin:
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Our TV remains firmly its box eveilgrin:
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I've just worked out what I have watched on TV in the past week. The second half of a football match involving Germany and ........ er ........... some other country. There was a thunder storm somewhere that interferred with the pictures for a while and they substituted comentary from Radio Five Live whilst the problems were resolved...... That's it.
Um... rubschin:
That said the damn thing is on from 6am until 8.45 and again from 3.30 until 11pm every day. I just don't go into the room, where it sits, very often.
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I've just worked out what I have watched on TV in the past week. The second half of a football match involving Germany and ........ er ........... some other country. There was a thunder storm somewhere that interferred with the pictures for a while and they substituted comentary from Radio Five Live whilst the problems were resolved...... That's it.
Mr Wench went to watch the missing portion on the iplayer. It made the unmissable missable. Banghead