the edukators ( die fetten jahre sind vorbei ) should be adopt a the movie of the summer of live8 and with almost a good a soundtrack . it be a wonderful illustration of how all politics be personal a one character quote and every heart be a revolutionary cell and compare the hormonal rush from political action to love . help enormously by an appeal cast who perfectly capture the ebullience and exuberance and idealism of twentysomethings and director or co writer han weingartner brings to life an intelligent film about politics that be also very funny and wonderfully romantic . just when any character start slip into rhetoric in their thoughtful and pointed debate and their conversation suddenly turn on double meaning for their personal life . dialectic quickly turn to long gaze a these be sweet revolutionary who be irrepressibly human . a probably middle class product of democracy who want to influence voter for change and they be much more yippies than terrorist . they be more about what use to be call consciousness raising and hence the original german title and a they warn rich capitalist your day of plenty be number and sign themselves erziehungsberechtigter and a mouthful which i understand translates more a guardian than the nevertheless evocative english title . the first half of the film have a breathless new wave feel and and i be sure it not a coincidence that one character be name jule a the jules et jim triangle be a driving plot point . there an amusing pattern of repeat visuals that change meaning a we see who be now next to whom and who be asleep and who be awake . her boyfriend peter be just the kind of seductive guy and play by a leonine stipe erceg and who bring her a present of a sexy camisole and think she just need bright color in her frustrating life . so how can she help but be surprise that his angry young man best friend and weird roommate jan can really talk to her . music be use marvelously throughout the film ( even though cover of leonard cohen hallelujah no and it not jeff buckley version and it lucky jim have be way overuse in film lately and the word actually be meaningful in a climactic scene here ) . non german speaker be otherwise at a real disadvantage both for have to tear your eye away from the charismatic actor and because few of the lyric be translate in the subtitle and though i presume one be translate because the nostalgic lyric for a pastoral past gain ironic resonance when the threesome end up in a soothing sylvan tyrollean landscape . but we can pick up that the guy play loud and aggressive music in very expressive mano a mano camaraderie throughout and the chick play a romantic sounding singer and jeff cole . so we can also be surprise when jan admit to have go to the same concert she do . while daniel brühl be charm in goodbye and lenin and sweet in lady in lavender and a jan he a heartbreaking movie star . the camera simply fall in love with him and too and in frequent close ups and and wet opportunity to take his shirt off and a he put poignancy into every look and even a furtive and frustrated glance in a rear view mirror . just when a baby boomer be feel nostalgic watch these kid and the film make the connection with the 60 explicit a it very amusingly cross the big chill with ruthless people . there be at least two line from these comparison that be very laugh out loud funny and while make point about the 1968 of protest and sex and drug and rock n roll . somehow i have previously miss the generation gap truism represent if youre not liberal when youre under 30 and you have no heart . if youre liberal after 30 and you have no brain . the conclusion go in very surprising twist on bourgeois ethic that leave some question about who choose to do what to whom when and who be now a good liar . so it be frustrate to learn on the imdb message board that the director go back and add a clarify scene that be only be show in germany . i can only hope international audience will at least get to see it on the dvd . it be refresh to see a german political film where the context be europe within capitalist globalism and though there be a couple of frisson of recall to the unavoidable past and a when the rich capitalist they debate come very close to say he just follow order in how he just follow the system . the subtitle translate one of his point a perilously sound like work will make you free but i do not know if he actually say arbeit macht frei in the german . i presume the number of english word that have casually become part of their lexicon be also symbolic of globalization . how wonderful that a new generation of activist and at least through this film and have a sense of humor . this film restore one faith that youth be not in fact waste on the young .