Little Angel, Make Me Happy...

Well, what can I say? I thought the last film of the semester, Little Angel, Make Me Happy, was really good. It was heartbreaking to witness Georg's ordeal, but there is no denying that it was a good film. One of the things about this film that I thought was interesting (and something that everyone seemed to pick up on as well, based on the class discussions) was the fact that the Germans were portrayed as the victims, rather than the villains. This is not something that I expected to see in a film set around World War II. I guess this just goes to show that the views on foreign countries during the war that we are taught growing up may sometimes be one-sided, causing us to form our own biased opinions. It really reiterates the fact that unless a person has experienced a certain event from all possible perspectives, it is difficult to understand the effects that such an event has had on other cultures.

I know that I am about a week behind with this film, but being the last film of the semester, I had to say something about it. Looking back at all of the films that have been assigned for this class over the last few months, I can't think of any that I didn't find interesting in some way. Obviously there were some that I really liked and others that I didn't find as enthralling, but all of them taught me something about Central Asian culture and/or presented certain stylistic features that were quite fascinating to think about. I have to say that I think Little Angel, Make Me Happy was probably one of the best films of the bunch and was certainly one of the most emotional. It seemed like a good choice for the last film for the course.