Movie- The Baader Meinhoff Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex, from Germany, was nominated for an Oscar in the Foreign Film category. It did not win.

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) tells the true story of a German domestic terrorist group, the Red Army Faction (RAF) which performed dozens of terrorist acts against Germany and American companies and armed forces in Germany.

The movie takes you inside the group, from the beginning, so you can understand why the group felt compelled to be so violent. But understanding does not make sympathy at all, because these people were crackpots...thinking indiscriminate killing could somehow transform the world into a utopia.

And while I could understand the frustration of not being heard by the government,to resort to the type of violence they did is unconscionable.

And there lies the problem with the movie in my mind...understanding the formation and acts of the group does not change a damn thing...they are still cowardly terrorists, like they always were. While governments are often wrong, killing innocent people is just as wrong, and hurts any thing you may be trying to change.

While technically, the movie is excellent, it did not move me in any way, except to dislike this group even more. And somehow, from the way the movie was made, I don't think that was the point of it.