Vincent Geddes » Politics http://blogs.gnome.org/vgeddes Blogging is Serious Business! Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:37:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The Lives of Others http://blogs.gnome.org/vgeddes/2007/11/05/the-lives-of-others/ http://blogs.gnome.org/vgeddes/2007/11/05/the-lives-of-others/#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:43:52 +0000 vgeddes http://blogs.gnome.org/vgeddes/2007/11/05/the-lives-of-others/ The Lives of Others

We went to see Das Leben der Anderen (2006) on the weekend. Set in the former GDR, the movie depicts the tension between a group of dissidents and the Stasi agents who are trying to dig up dirt on them.

The antagonist, Wiesler, a rather ascetic and hard-working agent, loses his grip on reality as the power-struggles and depravity of Stalinism slowly eat away at his resolve. He has the task of monitoring the playwright Dreyman, and a rather interesting story ensues. That’s all — Don’t want to spoil the plot!

In personal news, I am nearly finished with exams. Some other good news is that I have been accepted into the CS Honours programme at UCT next year.

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