Good-Bye Lenin

This movie reminded me of how my own country looked 14 years ago. I can't believe all the time that has passed.
At difference of East Germany, my country was leaving behind a dictatorship completely opposed to communism. In my country communists were during 17 years chased, exiled, tortured and/or killed. Being a communist was an unforgivable sin for our militars. Above all because that meant you would have the capacity of thinking on your own.
I never liked communism myself. I kind of admired the idea and the utopia, but I never understood how is that the comunists would never understand that it couldn't go further than a beautiful dream would go. They had a dream and it was shattered by the dictatorship. The world changed, the dictator was gone but the time for those ideals were gone with him.
It's the year 1989. A young man is on the streets in the middle of a protest when his mother suffers a heart attack while she sees the police arresting her son. She will stay in coma for 8 months during which the country will see the abdication of Honnecker, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the arrival of McDonald and Coke Co. the the East Germany. All the things that this woman used to believe now will be disappeared for good. When she wakes up, her son has to find the way to pretend that nothing has changed since any excitement could cause a new heart attack and kill her.
A film full of nostalgia that in these days makes us re-think about our own beliefs and about the ideals in our lives, and let us understand that nothing is necessarily just black or white... or black and red.

Good Bye Lenin (2003)
Director: Wolfgang Becker