To continue on the theme from this morning. "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" is a film about a young woman who, along with her brother, was a member of a student resistance group in Nazi Germany. They were charged with high treason and executed after distributing anti-war materials. This film tells of her arrest, trial and execution. Also during World War II, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a major theologian, was involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. These are other examples of people who took strong stands for their beliefs.
Julia Jentsch, who played Sophie Scholl in that movie, was also in another interesting film, "The Edukators" ("Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei" was the original German title, "The fat years are over."or "Your days of plenty are numbered" as it is translated on the cover of the DVD.) It is about friends who break into the houses of rich people and rearrange things without stealing anything, they leave a note with the words of the German title of the movie. It is a humorous and thought provoking movie. They try to shake up what is seen as a secure world by the wealthy people whose houses they break into. Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg and Burghart Klaußner were also in this film. Things are not always black and white. (It is sort of funny that Burghart Klaußner's name is spelled "Klaubner" on the front of the DVD. "Klaussner" would be a better way to anglicize it.)
Under what circumstances is breaking a law to make a point acceptable? Should an unjust law be fought by the breaking of that law or through the legal system? Maybe it depends on the law and the political situation. Attention needs to be brought to unjust laws and injustices wherever they are.
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