Goodbye Lenin! This is not a sci-fi film but we watched it yesterday and found it hilarius, poignant and ironic. A teenage boy from the ex-GDR tries to recreate the world before the fall of the Berlin Wall for his mother, who spent eight months in a coma after suffering a heart attack. Her situation could deteriorate and she may die if she were to suffer another heart attack so it is obvious she cannot be told the world in she lived and believed does not exist anymore and that capitalism is now with them.

Goodbye Lenin! Esta no es una pelicula de ciencia ficcion pero la vimos ayer y nos parecio genial, hilarante, con toques ironicos y muy agudos. Un adolescente de la ex-Republica Democratica Alemana intenta recrear el mundo tal como era antes de la caida del muro de Berlin para su madre, quien ha pasado ocho meses en coma despues de sufrir un ataque al corazon. La situacion de la madre podria empeorar o podria incluso morir si sufriera otro ataque, asi que para el chico es obvio que ella no tiene que enterarse de que el mundo en el que vivia y creia ya no existe y que el capitalismo les ha invadido.


The weather today:
Haze
7C
UV Index: 0 Low
Wind: From the North Northeast at 3 mph
Dew Point: 4C
Humidity: 80%
Visibility: 3 miles
Barometer: 1,021.3 mb