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Date Posted: 15:26:48 02/06/08 Wed
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: Lives of Others

Over the weekend, I watched the Lives of Others. I know that Jackson had mentioned that the movie could be watched through a very Girardian reading, but I came away from the film unable to see what was so mimetic about the movie. Can any one who has seen it recently help me out? The scene in the bar between the agent conducting the surveillance and the actress did parrot the conversation between the actress and her playwrite boyfriend (I am forgetting the names of the characters) and once the playwrite's director friend killed himself, the playwrite took his place as a political subversive. For the most part, however, I didn't really see an interpersonal imitation to rivalry or even community scapegoating. In fact, the very desire of the East German surveillance was an intentional effort to locate the playwrite as a subversive. They appeared conscious of their desire to scapegoat him.

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