The filmmakers use the dynamics of the primal scene, presumably
without conscious awareness of those dynamics, to exact upon the agents
of the East German government (GDR) exactly the forms of revenge that
Arlow’s patients exact in fantasy upon their parents.
I have not yet met anyone who saw The Lives of Others who
didn’t speak highly of it. It allows us a frightening view of a
totalitarian state (East Germany, circa 1984) that rivals anything in
Orwell’s imagination. Big Brother is watching and we watch along with
him. It also gives us a story of miraculous transformation as a hardened
Stasi agent, an “idealist” who lives for the state, becomes a rebel and
a closet romantic.
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