Comparing Wiesler And Dreyman
Summary Relationship Scenes
A number of scenes create a summary relationship between the story timeline and the screen duration. The film begins in East Berlin around November 1984 and though most of the plot takes place during this time reference, the story’s full timeline is almost a decade long. The following scenes complement the narrative because they allow the viewer to understand the historical changes in the setting (for example – the fall of the Berlin Wall) and the changes in the characters (for example – Wiesler is demoted from Captain to letter opening clerk):
Scene 1 – The film identifies that 4 years and 7 months have passed. This scene prepares the viewer for change and allows us to understand that Wiesler has been in his …show more content…
As he sits listening to the “lives of others”, he starts to see things differently while the pressure to find dirt increases. We see the change evidenced in scenes, which reflect his awakening and dilemmas. The scenes are: 1) Wiesler reading and enjoying the novel he took from Dreyman. The concept of literature having value is against all socialistic beliefs. 2) Listening to Dreyman play the piano sonata he is “moved” and touched by the music 3) when the boy with the balloon enters the elevator and states to Wiesler that he is not a good person according to his father Wiesler has a reflective moment and elects not to take the boy father’s name down. 4) Speaking to Christa at the bar and showing an ability to empathize with her needs.
Over time, Wiesler becomes the emotional centre of the story and the line between heroes and villains goes grey. Weisler risks his entire career as his attitude to his “subjects” changes from one of mistrust to one of near-adoration. He begins to envy the richness and depth of their lives in comparison with his own. He changes radically, and decides he longer wants to be a part of an unethical, inhumane system. He becomes the good man acknowledged by Dreyman’ book and in the end finally does something for himself. These events and changes reflect a round
A number of scenes create a summary relationship between the story timeline and the screen duration. The film begins in East Berlin around November 1984 and though most of the plot takes place during this time reference, the story’s full timeline is almost a decade long. The following scenes complement the narrative because they allow the viewer to understand the historical changes in the setting (for example – the fall of the Berlin Wall) and the changes in the characters (for example – Wiesler is demoted from Captain to letter opening clerk):
Scene 1 – The film identifies that 4 years and 7 months have passed. This scene prepares the viewer for change and allows us to understand that Wiesler has been in his …show more content…
As he sits listening to the “lives of others”, he starts to see things differently while the pressure to find dirt increases. We see the change evidenced in scenes, which reflect his awakening and dilemmas. The scenes are: 1) Wiesler reading and enjoying the novel he took from Dreyman. The concept of literature having value is against all socialistic beliefs. 2) Listening to Dreyman play the piano sonata he is “moved” and touched by the music 3) when the boy with the balloon enters the elevator and states to Wiesler that he is not a good person according to his father Wiesler has a reflective moment and elects not to take the boy father’s name down. 4) Speaking to Christa at the bar and showing an ability to empathize with her needs.
Over time, Wiesler becomes the emotional centre of the story and the line between heroes and villains goes grey. Weisler risks his entire career as his attitude to his “subjects” changes from one of mistrust to one of near-adoration. He begins to envy the richness and depth of their lives in comparison with his own. He changes radically, and decides he longer wants to be a part of an unethical, inhumane system. He becomes the good man acknowledged by Dreyman’ book and in the end finally does something for himself. These events and changes reflect a round