That Moment When You Recognize Someone But It Ends Up That They Just Look Exactly Like An Actor.

The first thing I’d like to comment on is David Brühl. Why? Because he’s a fantastic actor and there’s a whole little crack in the Tumblr wall dedicated to him. He’s also going to be in a movie with the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch somewhere within the next couple of years. Also, he knows how to speak like five different languages proficiently which is a lot a lot.

Also worthy of mention is Burghart Klaussner, he is also a good actor. I was just wondering if this genre of movies does as the BBC does and constantly reuses the same actors over and over? No? Must just be me then…

Well, it’s not letting me watch the second half of Goodbye Lenin, which is really, really depressing because I liked that one much more than The Edukators. Goodbye Lenin had a much better style of storytelling and honestly learned a lot about the reunification of East and West Germany. The Edukators on the other hand, whilst telling a different story, still had no excuse for moving so slow that it felt like a week’s worth of movie watching.

In both movies however, the same theme remains; the same theme in Baader-Meinhof, and Berlin Calling. The theme of escalation. In The Edukators it is when they end up kidnapping the man instead of just doing the rearrangement of furniture and in Goodbye Lenin it is Alex getting so caught up in lying to his mother that it becomes easier to unravel it.

Take a moment to also compare and contrast the two characters that Daniel Brühl plays. Alex, a much more innocent character trying to do his best to make up for giving his mother the heart attack that put her in a coma and Jan, the relatively stoic activist who breaks into people’s houses but doesn’t steal anything in the hopes that they’ll become completely paranoid about their money. In both movies money does play a big part. Remembering in Goodbye Lenin when East Germany was crossing over to the DM from the currency they were using before and Alex’s mother couldn’t remember where she’d stashed her savings and both the kids look disappointed. Money in The Edukators is slightly self-explanatory. Jan, Peter, and Jule are basically broke and are fighting for better working conditions and pay for people in Asia, so they go into rich people’s villas and rearrange everything until they end up kidnapping one.