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kentuck

(111,106 posts) Sat Nov 22, 2014, 07:54 PM Nov 2014

Has anyone seen the movie, "The Lives of Others"?

About the STASI in East Germany after the Berlin Wall went up? I wonder if anyone saw any comparison with the direction the NSA is going?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Has anyone seen the movie, "The Lives of Others"? (Original Post) kentuck Nov 2014 OP

Yes, I saw it when it was first made here DFW Nov 2014 #1

Yes and Yes. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2014 #2

The extent of the spying upon the citizens was unbelievable! kentuck Nov 2014 #3

And, like here, they were doing it for the peoples own good. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2014 #6

yes. it is superb. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2014 #4

Yes, and no comparison at all BeyondGeography Nov 2014 #5

Yes I saw it KT2000 Nov 2014 #7

Yes, I saw it some time ago HeiressofBickworth Nov 2014 #8

DFW

(54,415 posts)

1. Yes, I saw it when it was first made here

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 08:12 PM

Nov 2014

"Here" being Germany. And, no, it is a different situation. I visited East Berlin while it was still that. We had friends there.

You can't imagine, I promise you.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. Yes and Yes.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 08:14 PM

Nov 2014

kentuck

(111,106 posts)

3. The extent of the spying upon the citizens was unbelievable!

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 08:24 PM

Nov 2014

They knew everything. Everything.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

6. And, like here, they were doing it for the peoples own good.

Reply to kentuck (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 10:08 PM

Nov 2014

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)

4. yes. it is superb.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 08:39 PM

Nov 2014

BeyondGeography

(39,376 posts)

5. Yes, and no comparison at all

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 09:07 PM

Nov 2014

KT2000

(20,585 posts)

7. Yes I saw it

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 10:24 PM

Nov 2014

My takeaway was that when one person lives with compassion and does the right thing - it lives on to make the world a better place if even for a small circle of people.

I don't think our country has reached the level of the STASI.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

8. Yes, I saw it some time ago

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Nov 22, 2014, 11:13 PM

Nov 2014

I agree with KT2000 -- any similarity with NSA ends with the ending of the movie when the spy finally "gets" it. NSA will never "get" it.

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