Lore (2013)

You won't be disappointed!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This movie is quite provocative. It is essentially about collective punishment, since a teenager girls (Lore) needs to become surrogate mother to her young siblings, who face starvation in post war Germany. She is immature herself, but slowly learns how to become a role model, and during the movie, we wonder how does it feel to be burdened with a legacy that is not yours.If his father was a perpetrator of any crimes (the movie doesn't tell a lot if he was just a petty officer or more than that) the children are totally victims of a war they didn't cause. I had sympathy for Lore because she shows how we humans behave in a situation of desperation. There are millions of civilians dispersed, everybody is poor, so no one helps anybody. So essentially the children are on their own.I enjoyed the movie, even though it is a mostly sad story.

Lore and her four brothers and sisters are forced to embark on a very dangerous journey across a devastated Germany during the second world war. Left orphans after their parents were sent to concentration camps, the five must rely on a mysterious person in order to survive the harsh conditions they're about to face on their way to a distant Hamburg, where their grandmother lived.It's a very dramatic movie which describes in detail the cruel life that German people were living. Although I am interested in history and also fascinated by it, this movie wasn't truly capable of presenting its story in a way that can capture my attention. It is boring most of the time and inexplicably graphic. I understand that it contributes to a very dramatic atmosphere but I think that this part is exaggerated (this isn't a horror movie after all). I enjoyed the main actors but Lore's character simply made me scratch my head numerous times. She makes so many decisions that I simply cannot understand while her act in the finale is as stupid and as idiotic as the finale itself. She worked so hard to get there and still wasn't happy? It was her choice! Why wasn't she happy? Why? I did enjoy the decor and the landscapes which were well chosen and described but the overall feeling left by this movie was unsatisfying.It had potential and a good idea but they weren't fully exploited. Furthermore, from what I understood that happened in the novel it's based on ("The Dark Room" by Rachel Seiffert), the ending isn't as it is depicted in the movie, the one from the book being different in a better and much more interesting way. An average movie and nothing more.

As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate. This movie caught me by surprise it was directed pretty nicely but also the performance of the leading girl Hannelore played by Saskia Rosendahl is amazing this is a movie in a time of war that truly shines for it's time but also shows how many people were out there that were the same as today trying to make love with a girl or use them in order to take one of the kids away. We never see the parents again but 100% they were executed i'm glad that the film ended on a high note but not everyone makes it on Grandma's house in the end Lore was an excellent movie that you should definitely see.

"Lore" hooked me pretty quickly as I enjoy this genre of movies - combining an extremely important piece of history with an engaging story.The movie reminded me some of "The Road" due to it being similar to a post-apocalyptic journey. Of course "Lore" is a about a story that could have really taken place while "The Road" is about a fictionalized end of the world scenario. The accounts that I have studied regarding post WW2 Germany has been described as apocalyptic. Other factors that made me believe that "Lore" is accurately describing the post WW2 scene:The many suicides in the country that took place.The brain washing of the young and the influence Hitler had on the youth in Germany.The dichotomy of the German psyche with the differing views of those that believed in the regime and those that did not.There is great character development the lead character "Lore" was first rate. You can see the various degrees the NAZI doctrine had on each of the characters and the potential for it to finally be removed from their psyches. The younger girl was excellent as well. Great acting all around.