MOVIES : Downfall

This is the german film about the fall of the Third Reich. As such it tries to skirt controversy by trying to tell the story of some people who are in charge of this huge organisation which is collapsing, but they can hardly believe it. While there are some nods at things like the jewish extermination and so on, they have tried to keep it to merely nods so people don't have too much to complain about (though I don't think the russians will like it too much)
Consequently you are watching a quite human film about watching the work of your life fall apart, and simply not believing it. You are reminded that, no matter how evil these people were, they did acheive amazing (not great) things. You were also shown how self-deluded they were; while 'integrety' is important to me, 'honor' to the point of self-destruction has never really mad sense (especially when that self-sacrifice involved the self-sacrificing of your children...)
It was quite educational about the last few days as well, and certainly no glorification of war; kids of 12 maning artillery is not glorious. And certainly the old adage 'old soldiers never die, only young ones' holds true if you ignore the suicides...
Anyway, I am going to have to find some critiqing of this because, while I am sure it is quite accurate, it is important with this sort of thing to make sure you don't have only the one viewpoint.