Dictatorship always was and always will be an especially oppressive state of any place in the world. This movie is not the only one about spying. It is award-winning and tries to focus on what could be called the eavesdropper’s pain.
The secret life of a person never to be heard or felt which is supposed basically to be a non-entity. At the same time starting to live through the people, the living and breathing human beings he spies on…
Let’s not forget what it can feel like to be spied on… I think most people can easily imagine what that could mean: any movement, any reaction, any action of a normal, everyday life being recorded and watched…. In democracies it seems to be an accepted fact that spying on the ‘enemies of the state’ is a matter of course. Protect and safe…?
I still wonder how often it might happen that the wrong people are spied upon. And how often just listening on morsels of sound can lead to huge mistakes of interpretation…
A little like those dreadful miscarriages of justice. Not everyone is a well-read person and can imagine the almost endless varieties of human life.