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Review
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Alex's mother is a party stallwart, a loyal devotee of the
Socialist Party of East Germany. Her husband has fled to
the west. Her children are Alex and Ariane. She suffers a
heart attack just before the wall falls, and goes into a
coma. When she comes out of the coma, the doctor advises
Alex that she cannot have any more shocks. He decides to
use all his ingenuity to make her believe that nothing has
changed. This leads to some good comic moments as he stages
newcasts (even using footage of the wall coming down ), but
this is basically a clumsy, akward movie. The problem is
that the film takes great paine to explain things that don't
rally need that big of an explanation-- just more of a cool
acceptance that, yes, there are strange things in the world,
like Coca Cola signs, that don't always need explanation.
Generally likeable but a bit slow-moving.
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