The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex Review

In the present-day, apparently intractable era of political terrorism, the movie The Baader Meinhof Complex takes its audience back to history to learn from the violent protests of late 19^th to early 20^th century. Bernd Eichinger’s film shades light on the morals and psychological insights of terrorism under the watch of Western authority and the secret agent.  The movie commences on a beach setting with the twin daughters of journalist Ulrike Meinhof playing together in the watch of their mother. Meinhof has written a letter to Empress Farah, who is supposed to be on a trip to West Germany. Seemingly, the presence of the Iranian couple in Germany was highly unwelcomed; an event that leads to a group of thugs attacking peaceful demonstrators.  The police are nowhere to intervene and after some time, a plainclothesman under polices’ active assistance, brutally shoots dead one of the protesters. This event marks the epicenter of social disorder in Germany.

The emergence of radical associates turns to the government by employing calculated tacks of violence against symbolic and real targets. The youths become radicalized and intolerant to the government of the day, a factor that makes them to be baptized as “terrorists.” Attacks and counter-attacks take center stage between the brutal and uncomprehending government authorities and the retaliatory terrorists. Consequently, RAF and their supporters adopted a neo-Nazi predisposition in West Germany, which backed America’s imperialism in developing nations, dominance of Palestinians by the Israeli, and manipulation of the poor. The utopian ideas, impatience, and gradualism made the youth radicals who pushed Germany to be a police state. The movie’s factual nature with vivid expositions makes it hard for the audience to confound prior judgments; a strong point for the director.