Goodbye Lenin - Wake up the memory by the film
When a film stands an important history of country, the significance for the film carries that period of people precious memory. Goodbye Lenin tells a story about lie and love. Under the background history of East Germany, this film arouses these people about their previous life.
Television and film play important link to establish relationship between East German Products and East Germans. Goodbye Lenin is the outstanding example to make this contribution. In recent decades, this film is one of the most successful German films and has a depth influence in national and international popularity. In the film Goodbye Lenin, this film has a recording function to tell the audience the previous history of the tumultuous events in 1989 (Daphne, 1999). For each German, East German which commemorates an identity, East German. This identity is closely linked to East German’s period material signs of past daily life. So,this film has a good market plan. Wake up the memories. From the book, Ostalgie for the present: Memory, Longing and East German refers a list of East Germany.In the film, there are many elements of East German period. Especially the topic events. The toppling of socialist memorials and monuments. When the fall of the East German wall happened, it was a challenge for these eastern Germans before.They became a new identity, Ossis. For the film Goodbye Lenin, Eastern Germans pay their first attention on the background of the story history. Although Eastern Germans tries to change and adapt their new identity, few years later,local people like to recover that period which calls ‘GDR revival’ or the‘renaissance of a GDR Heimategefuhl’. Goodbye Lenin carries the memory of that period. This film happens in a family, tell a story to lie her mother the Germany has no change. The hero, Lenin tells the lie to his mother because his mother suffers heart disease and she cannot hear each information which can stimulate her emotion. A brief story connects with the family and a period of history. Combination with these two elements, this film can attract the people who want to find the previous memory by the film. This film is comedy and tell the family story. It is very appropriate to lead the whole family to see this film and think back the previous life. So, this film also has a great sentimental value for Eastern German.
(GoodbyeLenin Poster, 2003)
A good film poster can appeal audience by the eye’s attraction. Goodbye Lenin owns typical sign to publicity this film. As the introduction shows, this film is a comedy and full of storytelling to record a story about love. In common, the comedy film poster performs comedy elements, such as funny, laugh and some antics. However, as the blog shows, only Lenin and his mother stand. Mother’s face shows a clam and peaceful emotion. Lenin’s facial expression shows shock. He looks vacantly and his hands in pants to hide his nervous. This poster uses amount red color to draw the figure. Red in human emotion stands warm, angry and attention. Instead, the white and black color string to describe the outline figure. This outline drawing design refers from the Eastern Germany period artistic style. So, for the best publicity and appeal the audience to go to the cinema to see Goodbye Lenin. Poster plays a signal flare function to announce people. Goodbye Lenin is coming.
For the German’s film market, German film makers faced pressure and the last decade Germans film style. In the past decade, German’s film makers do amount of work to create a film which can properly contain the escapist German comedy and the past dark social pessimism. They had a work to memory that period life. Meanwhile, they hope a German film can solve the problem, the German reunification lead the economic and psychic pressures bearing. To wake up the memory, Goodbye Lenin takes a nostalgic and fondly humorous to look back at the GDR (Gareth, 2007) to answer the questions about the lingering problem. Goodbye Lenin become fashioned, its owl to the family drama. “It’s a very human story, a story which can be easily understood by everybody.” This is from a US audience’s impression of view (Roger, 2006). For the international people and all the countries’audience. This film expresses the story is warm. For the German audience, this film can wake up their memories. For outside of German audience, whatever their own custom or cultural. They all can enjoy the historic film. When the personal drama and the epoch-making events start to be combination, Goodbye Lenin shows its story telling charm to move audience. Comedy leads audience happy and funny. A warm and happiness story perform the human’s brave and love. Goodbye Lenin’s hero, Alex shows his enjoyable story and his valiant effort to protect and love his mother.
Goodbye Lenin in film market has a big success. A good storytelling to record and reflex the German’s past decades important event. In this film, international event and information for people likes get information from newspaper. They know the event happen. That’s enough. Back to the daily life, an international event changes a common family’s life will appeal audience to pay attention on it. Behind the comedy, a series of family events happened were because a son tried his best to protect his mother. Audience like and love a film which is full of kinship. Wake up the eastern Germans memory and move global audience, Goodbye Lenin.
Reference:
Daphne Berdahl(1999).‘(N)Ostalgie’ for the Present: Memory, Longing, and East German
Things. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Gareth Dale(2007).Heimat, “Ostalgie” and the Stasi: The GDR in German Cinema,
199-2006.Lancaeter University Library.
Roger Hillman(2006).Goodbye Lein (2003): History in the Subjunctive.RoutledgeTaylor & Francis Group.
Goodbye Lenin.(2003).The introduction of the Goodbye Lenin[image]. Retrieved from:https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%86%8D%E8%A7%81%E5%88%97%E5%AE%81/6659384?fr=aladdin
