Talk:Roland Freisler/Comments

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I think the article is weak. As noted a citation is needed for Freisler. Though not impossible in the chaos of post WWI Germany, the sudden conversion of a "fanatical communist" to a Nazi, needs a reference. The problem is compounded when the movie's subtitle has Sophie's communist handmaid say that Freisler, "as a Soviet Commissar, will need to put on a good show for his rehabilitation." This is significant because this film is the 2nd on the White Rose. The 1st, titled "The White Rose," was a perfectly fine film. This raises the question, why the need for a second film? To pass critical muster as a film of historical biography, "Sophie Scholl: The Last Days," must show itself free of factitious anti-communist intent. The "White Rose" has a number of spoken references to linking up with communist resistance circles, and a vivid scene of Sophie colluding with a female Russian P.O.W. to plant duds in the shells they're assembling at the munitions plant. In contrast this film takes great pains to distance the White Rose from communists, and to paint the youth in distinctly nationalist hues, representing the submerged conscience of a "German people" yearning beneath the surface to break free of totalitarianism. It seems this film ought to be controversial as a post-DDR remake, analogous to "The Lives of Others," and "Goodbye, Lenin" (anti-ostalgie and ostalgie films respectively). At the least a credible citation is needed re Freisler. Otherwise it ought to be scrapped or tagged as "controverted" in some way. Rmontgomery 03:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)RMontgomeryRmontgomery 03:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)