POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: UNDER SURVEILLANCE. Noy Thrupkaew reviews the Oscar-winning German film The Lives of Others, which chronicles how an agent with the Stasi secret police finds himself at odds with the East German system when he becomes personally invested in a artistic couple he's charged with monitoring. Thrupkaew says the movie "invites us to peel an onion of artifice, even as it seduces with its emotional pull." --The Editors
