The Baader Meinhoff Complex from 2008 is a relentless film. It's fueled by the outrage of its protagonists who want to burn down the world and succeed in scorching a corner of it. Their journey is a spiral of madnesses. Angered by a world seemingly gone mad with military conquest they respond in kind with an unhinged uncompromising brutality until they are in turn ground down into a sort of state-sponsored insanity in solitary confinement. The movement was sprawling and persistent wreaking a path of mayhem through West Germany. Interestingly, their motivations had a lot of public support and, according to this film, a certain amount of sympathy from popular Chancellor Willy Brandt. Until the root causes are addressed, he argued, a military solution would only go so far. Would that we had such wisdom in today's leaders. The commitment to give one's life for a cause seems unfathomable to most of us. We hold onto our mortal coils with all our might. But seen from another side, what good are our lives doing, if they can't free even one other soul?

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