Downfall
Just watched it today and I can recommend it. The subtitles if anything add to the atmosphere. The scene where Frau Gobbles murders her children by sedating them and then clamping their teeth onto a capsule of cyanide was very fraught. You got a real sense of the impending doom and disaster for the civilians and soldiers alike. Has anyone else seen this film and what are their thoughts?
Downfall
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Very good movie indeed - a couple of weeks ago I watched the 3h TV version of the movie when it was shown on TV here in Germany
This is exactly were the movie excels IMO in showing the waste of life when everybody already knew that the end was inevitable.You got a real sense of the impending doom and disaster for the civilians and soldiers alike
Brilliant performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler.
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Can't stress the excellence of this film enough. I've watched it a couple of times now, and it's as powerful as ever.
"The facts of history cannot be purely objective, since they become facts of history only in virtue of the significance attached to them by the historian." E.H. Carr
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Great movie, you even tend to feel sympathy towards Hitler, which is very strange since you know what he did and started.
Anyway, If you're interested in that time period, it is a must see.
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I laughed, I couldn't help it, I actually laughed while seeing this movie in a movie theater. When the movie ended I saw a person sitting close to me crying, I did feel a little bad then, but still, I really enjoyed the movie, even if it was in my own cruel way
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I didn't think the direction was that great, but the acting was(for the most part). I think it could have taken more chances.
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