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To Justusdallmer and others.

posted 17 years ago by teresazs
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"... Lights" ("Lichter") of the rich, promised land of wealth, where I live (I AM BLESSED TO LIVE HERE) which is only a small distance away. Only a river to cross, but in fact the distance from poor to rich is nearly impossible to cross..."

I hope that you won't get me wrong...
'Lichter' is another German movie in which Germany are great, rich ... 'Paradise on the Earth' and Poland is poor country with old cars, where people have mentality like in the middle ages. Sorry but it smells a bit like a megalomania.
Dear western neighbors it is NOT FAIR and NOT TRUTH! Of course Germany is richer than Poland, but it isn't important now and personally I don't care about it.
All I want to say is that the poor people, poor villages, even whole cities are everywhere on this planet, but if you think that whole Poland looks like that and that everyone want to escape from here to Germany or others 'western' countries YOU ARE WRONG!
My advice to German movie makers, let's take a look rather on some eastern parts of yours country which actually looks like a desert without people and future, or maybe I also have some wrong stereotypes?!

Please don't feel offended. ;)

Greetings! Pozdrawiam!

[–] cengelm 17 years ago

It's kinda Mexican border. Poland is actually member of the E.U. and the polish can pass the border and migrate to Germany. So it is not exactly the Mexican situation.

[–] zoppo9999 17 years ago

Today, Poland is member of the E.U., in 2002 (where the film is situated) it was not. The German-Polish border was then a heavily guarded E.U. outside border, just as the border between Poland and the Ukraine is now.

[–] bertrambunter 16 years ago

Poland is a member of the EU and can pass to Germany - don't we know it - thing is, they have msotly by-passed Germany (because of restrictions sensibly imposed on them by the German government), and ended up in the UK,where out traitorous government has allowd upwards of a million of 'em to enter in the last three years. They are taking far moe out than they are putting in and the entire thing amounts to a transfer of wealth from the working middle class of the UK to the Polich economic migrants now infesting the place. Oh yes, and it's supposed to be a 2-way street - well what would ou poles do if a million Uk citizens turned up in Poland, demanding their share of your health services, educaitonal facilities, welfare benefits - well, what would you do? Do you wonder that E Europeans are universally despised throughout W Europe??

[–] slaughtermob 17 years ago

hi teresazs,
please note that the germany pictured in this movie wasn't that bright anyway - I found it just as stereotyped and over the top as where the parts that played in poland. just grey concrete and rund-down locations.

[–] meininki 17 years ago

'Lichter' is another German movie in which Germany are great, rich ... 'Paradise on the Earth'

I didn't see it like that at all. Just look at the Devid Striesow character (Ingo?) and the woman working for him. Their lives definitely didn't look like paradise on earth to me... The same is true for the teenager that was constantly beaten up.

where people have mentality like in the middle ages.

I really don't know what you're referring to here.

if you think [...] that everyone want to escape from here to Germany or others 'western' countries YOU ARE WRONG!

In the film, the people who wanted to escape were Ukranians though, not Poles. At least, if I remember correctly...

My advice to German movie makers, let's take a look rather on some eastern parts of yours country which actually looks like a desert without people and future

But that's ecactly what Hans-Christian Schmid does in this film!

[–] Gutch220 15 years ago

Do all trucks in Poland sound like old Jet Ski's?

That's all I kept thinking about when I saw that blue truck.