A review and a refurbish

Hello! As you can tell our blog has had a facelift and has a new look! We hope you like it (it took me like 4 hours please do omg), we felt it needed a makeover as it was our still original design from when we first launched our blog!

Anyway, enough of that, Rosie and I just watched German drama-thriller 'The Lives of Others' and I'm going to review it.

'The Lives of Others' is ranked at #64 in the IMDb Top 250 so I was naturally expecting great things. I can tell you now, I was left disappointed. I enjoyed it overall but it was just a very good thriller, nothing outstanding yet not bad either. As it began we realised it was a foreign film, having not realised prior to viewing. Now I am no world cinema snob but this film was dragged down by the language barrier - there is a lot of dialogue and I probably would've liked it better if it had been in English. But there are a lot of good things about this film - a great cast, especially the main secret agent who spies on the writer, it's very touching but also very intense throughout. However at certain points it seemed to drag on a bit and I did lose interest slightly especially in the first half of the film, it's hard to explain but I'd say the film takes a while to settle. However I liked the fact the film explored a part of very recent history that film hasn't explored much and it also presented some terrifying thoughts about how governments can control and as the film said at the beginning 'know everything' about you, and how citizens can rebel. Overall an enjoyable thriller but not as good as the critics say.

Overall rating: 7/10

Ollie x