i wish the world were flat like the old days

Seen a couple of films that have really affected me recently namely Downfall and Mean Creek which cover slightly different topics. Downfall is about the last few hours of Hitler's Germany before Berlin is taken by the Russians (who you never really see but are still a presence) and some scenes still haunt me, namely when Goebbel's wife kills her children with poison and the noise of the glass vials is just horrible. The other is after setting fire to Hitler and his wife's bodies, the Nazis do a salute until Russian bombs start descending at which point they scatter pathetically back to their bunker.

Mean Creek is about a kid who is being bullied at school and his big brother and his mates form a plot to get revenge on him. However, over the course of the film they come to take sympathy on the bully realising they are all as flawed as him in different ways. Most of the chracters have an apparent comfort with themselves but in actually fact all when tested sort of fail. Also unusally for this sort of film the final act actually satisfies and leaves you thinking, you know about stuff and junk.

Also if you haven't seen Sideways yet-have a word