Film Review: The Lives of Others
- August 19th, 2008
The Lives of Others. Written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark. (2006) Starring: Sbastian Koch; Ulrich Muhe; Martina Gedeck. Daily Life in a Police State This film takes us back to 1984 in East Berlin in the GDR, where the lives of ordinary people are overseen by the state police, the Stasi. A virtual Orwellian state exists to watch over the people to insure that no one deviates from the party line, and that no one escapes to the west. One of the bureaucrats in the Stasi, Captain Wiesler, is assigned to eavesdrop on the lives of a playwright, Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, Christa Maria, a well-known actress. This couple are successful in the artistic world of the GDR but constrained in what they can write. The actress, unbeknown-st to her lover, is being sexually abused and blackmailed by a high government official.
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On our shrinking globe, there is a pervasive belief in the inevitability of war/armed violence. It is accompanied by a sense of hopelessness and despair that things will ever be different. Peace is seen as those brief periods between outbreaks of armed violence. This blog will introduce a radically different approach which begins with the fact that violence and war are language-based phenomena. Change the language and thinking and you change the behavior. We humans can choose the kind of world we want to live in, if we want it badly enough. If we chose to create a world that worked for everyone, no force on earth could stop us. We have the capacity to create, at this point in history, the kind of future we want for ourselves, our children and future generations. This is Peace by Design.
Here are some of the questions we will address:
How Did We Get Here?
