Good Bye Lenin! (My Best Picture of 2004)

2004 is my craziest movie year so far... I have seen all 166 of them from my collections, cinema houses, and video city rental stores. It is funny that I picked a German Comedy to be my favorite last year. The premise is pretty inventive:

Capitalism + Communism = Comedy --> Just like the Rip Van Winkle story, watch it and you'll see...

GOOD BYE LENIN! is a comedy of a bittersweet kind. It showed the complexity of life amid the weightlessness of freedom, enticement of westernization, and the burden of abrupt change. Set against the historic collapse of the Berlin Wall, the movie pleasantly integrates comedy of situation, irony of fate, and the quarreling alliance between reality and the heart's decree, hence picturing a fundamental tale of being. Famed German caliber of production, affecting cinematography, soundtrack, and leading/supporting performances all chip in to the reaching of tender moments of connection between wordless language and feeling, the visual and sensory, love and life. Indeed, one of the most remarkable contributions in the European artistic cinema, a beautiful and heartwarming movie… (A+)

My Top Ten List for 2004 looks like this:

1. Good Bye Lenin! (Germany)
2. In America (US)
3. LOTR: Return of the King (US)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (US)
5. Dogville (Denmark)
6. About Scmidht (US)
7. Barbarian Invasions (Canada)
8. Cold Mountain (US)
9. 21 Grams (US/Mexico)
10. Nicholas Nickleby (UK)

posted by basmayor @ 6:09 PM