The Lives of Others

(06/11/2007)

The Lives of Others," which won the Oscar for best foriegn film, is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Set in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall, it focuses on a lonely, rigid secret policeman who is assigned to listen to the bugs that have been planted in the home of a playwrite and his lover and the impact on his life of learning what a real human relationship can be like.