Mauerfall: people still have the power

9 November 2009

I never get tired of watching this.









No-one is sure of what to do tonight here in Berlin. I suppose just wander around and look for random and true emotion.  The planned actions seem too planned, though I will drop by the mauer-mob project.


What might happen if we riot against the banks:









 


One more crowd pleaser, this from Goodbye Lenin. The mother has been in a coma and missed the fall of the wall and re-unification. Under doctor's orders she is to avoid shock, so her family decorates the apartment just as it was back then and hilarity ensues. In this scene she gets up and escapes for a walk ...









Note the La Dolce Vita reference with the flying Lenin. One time I really did see the heads of Lenin, Marx and maybe Trotsky being driven out of the city on a flatbed truck. Marx still has statues all over the city though, we like him.