Watched: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

A very complicated, long movie about a complicated political movement. A revolution, among Germany's youth. The children of those who sat by while the Nazis ran their country, afraid to sit by and allow anything to happen in Germany for fear that it might be fascism. Or maybe it was fascism? The things they're protesting; America's presence in Vietnam, in Germany's military responses to their actions, the Shah of Iran's actions, are they things we have since come to approve or disprove? I can't tell. It's not like this group weren't their own kind of fascists, what with the subtle misogyny and conformism happening even within the first generation of activists. What's interesting about this movie is how glamorous and simultaneously confused they are able to depict the movement.

I probably should have watched this before The Edukators, as they discuss this movement at length. But a good movie nonetheless, and worth watching for the performances and the history.