This was really interesting for me. I was 18/19 when these events unfolded and I was a student of German, studying The Cold War.
I was really interested in the human side of that era and it was fascinating watching this from a German perspective alone, whereby each side became a pawn in the East vs West battle. There were no good or bad guys. Good and bad behaviour was depicted on both sides and, in the East, in particular, quite ordinary people were sucked into the politics, pitted against their families and embittered and corrupted. I really felt for Martin with his personal struggle to achieve a normal life and how the situation he found himself in changed him.
I know some people didn't like the ending with Trump and the comparison with his Mexican wall to the Berlin Wall, but I don't know if the filming occurred before or after January 2021. Whenever it was, it serves a stark reminder that democracy is more fragile than we think and we should not become complacent because it can easily be snatched from under our noses. America was a near miss.
I was really interested in the human side of that era and it was fascinating watching this from a German perspective alone, whereby each side became a pawn in the East vs West battle. There were no good or bad guys. Good and bad behaviour was depicted on both sides and, in the East, in particular, quite ordinary people were sucked into the politics, pitted against their families and embittered and corrupted. I really felt for Martin with his personal struggle to achieve a normal life and how the situation he found himself in changed him.
I know some people didn't like the ending with Trump and the comparison with his Mexican wall to the Berlin Wall, but I don't know if the filming occurred before or after January 2021. Whenever it was, it serves a stark reminder that democracy is more fragile than we think and we should not become complacent because it can easily be snatched from under our noses. America was a near miss.