It's amazing to think that a society like the one in East Germany really existed. A country where everyone was spied on. A place where the State decided what everyone should think about every topic. And where if you were an artist, you had to sell your soul to the State.
The latter is at the core of this excellent movie. In a totalitarian state , you can't really be true artist. If you are, you can't live there since you are not free to create. If you stay there and prosper, you have by definition to have sold your soul to the government. You are a government hack.
This is a thoughtful, intelligent and at times, incredibly supenseful movie about how a surveillance man for the government and a writer both realize that one has to make a stand in life. That,in the end, we have to take a side. And that one can't sit idle and watch an injustice being committed.
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