Baader-Meinhof Complex Reflection

The reaction I received from the movie is probably the one that the movie was trying to accomplish.  In the beginning I side with the extremists and the way that they were immediately mistreated.  As the movie continues though I could feel a shift of whom I sided with.  The extremists kept elevating and elevating the situation.  I began to think that the situation was growing beyond their control.  In the beginning the group seemed collected and well put together, but as we continued through the plot the group began to become strung out and stretched to thin.  The ones that they all looked up to in the beginning were beginning to be so extreme that it almost appeared that they wanted their part to be over, or to die.  The way that the Government of Germany reacted seemed very strong at the beginning, but when we see what the group was capable of and what plans that they enacted the German police didn’t seem so brutal.  That is how all situations like this usually unfold though.  A small group does some small acts that go relatively unnoticed and they must keep doing more and more extreme things stay relevant, stay ahead of the police, and to continue to get press.  I found the movie very interesting and a good depiction of the revolt or uprising that occurred in Germany at the time.  Very interested in seeing how the movie will end next week.