Goodbye Lennie

I know it's super late to write a review about this movie, but I'm writing anyway. The story occurred when Germany was divided into two: the West and East Germany. The two countries were separated by a wall, called the Berlin Wall. East Germany was a socialist republic, while the West was more of a democratic country. That's why a lot of East Germans wanted to go to the West.

The story focused on one family, a family living in East Germany. Their father moved to the West, hoping that they will follow, but the mother didn't. In turn, the mother became so dedicated to their country. The climax of the story was when the mother had a coma, and was asleep for eight months. In that eight months, a lot changed. The Berlin Wall was gone, indicating the unity between the East and West Germany. When the mother woke up, her son became scared that the mother will have another heart attack(which may cause her death) if she'll know what happened to their country. So he (together with his sister, his girlfriend, his sister's boyfriend and her mother's colleagues) worked hard to keep their mother from knowing the truth. But still at the end, the mother knew about the truth(told by the son's girlfriend), without the son knowing it. He's happy that his mother died without knowing that East Germany was already in unity with the west.

The main reason that we watched the movie is for us to understand the words spoken and also to know a little about the history of Germany. I must admit I understood the movie by reading the subtitle, but I also recognized a few words and maybe that's good enough ;) Looking forward to another good German movie (again, with a handsome lead actor) :)