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One of my favorite movies and deserves a place in my top-10 list,absolutely.

As a German low-budget, crowd-funding movie, which could be learnt from its official website, it impressively stands out from many commercial movies nowadays, from my perspective at the very least. Obviously, Queen of Niendorf lays great emphasis on the adorable and spellbinding depiction of memorable childhood experiences, featuring the juxtaposition of thrilling adventures and idyllic sceneries.

For the adventures, childish as they may seem in our eyes, it's exactly they that trigger the genuine interest and thrill of kids. Besides, they bear perfect witness to Lea's coming of age, from a "follower" to the "queen" of boys. The "railway test" vividly demonstrates the resilience, unyieldingness, recklessness and masculinity of our little Lea. So dangerous? Oh please just interpret the whole movie in children's mind--they are just as care-free as that way, and Lea is just full of guts, bravery and charm.

For the bucolic countryside scenery, it's more refreshing and intoxicating than that in most movies (comparable to Heidi, Under the Tuscan Sun, Flipped, etc). From the azure sky to bright sunshine, from emerald meadows to golden fields, from dazzlingly transparent swimming pool to smooth country road perfect for riding......What else should I covet if living in such a picturesque paradise?

It's also a wonderful movie without the boundary of time and space. Whenever you're born and wherever you're from, as long as you're watching it, an invisible bond comes into being with each and every one of other audience, empathizing with this romantically lovely children's world, which, more or less, we are nostalgic about, yearned for, infatuated with and dreaming of. Every once in a while throughout the movie,a knowing smile may dawn on our faces: isn't that proud boy or persistent girl I used to be? Didn't I once build a similar secret base like that tree house? Didn't I take daring adventures and play naughty tricks as they do? In this sense, rather than simple viewers and receivers, we, at least to some extent, collectively create this movie.

At last, this one, together with many other children's movies, reveals at a deeper level an underlying, easily-neglected yet frustrating truth, that is, when you can fully understand and admire a children's movie, you're no longer a child any more. Conversely, a real light-hearted, free-of-worry-and-care child may never identify with them, since the life and the experience depicted in them is literally the same as theirs, thus having nothing to be envious of or longing for--they just aloofly put them away: a record of my life? So boring and tedious! They prefer animations of fancy plots and characters. Decades later, when looking back, however, they will possibly have a dawning comprehension that the life they used to is actually the most treasurable at all. But what on earth can you do about it? Just getting more wistful yet lost. After all, such is human nature, that we are always unaware and oblivious of what we currently own but retrospective and reminiscent of what we used to have, that we can only cherish what is gone.

Anyway, should I've got a chance to relive the dreamy childhood, which is as splendid and iridescent as that in this movie, I'll go for it at any cost.

When I first watched this film,I quit half way-what on earth it wants to talk about?Ridiculous and preposterous and just typical black humor with unbearable vulgarity and eroticism(say the aberrant love with a child-girl etc.)However,when I have a second or maybe a third and fourth try,I find something different.

Conspicuously,this one is nothing of those ubiquitous funny,silly,superficial,comedic films that can make you brainlessly laugh to death and render you an unprecedentedly good frame of mindset after watching.This one is,in great contrary,rather complicated,unspeakably gloomy-much more abstruse and incomprehensible than any other film.Outwardly,it tells a droll and messy story of a family of three;inwardly,it recklessly,mercilessly,trenchantly reveals the most fragile yet authentic part concealed in everyone's life,hidden in everyone's heart.It may include those immoral desires for sex(Lester Burnham ),torturing despondency and failure(Carolyn) in life,trouble in puberty,irreconcilable conflicts with friends(Jane)...all of which most of us-"it's sad but true"-never dare to admit,and which everyone prefers to hide in their own secret nook forever.No one wants to face them,but,just as the film tells us,they are there,inevitable whether you want or not.So maybe a little vulgar,the film does tell the truth,which accounts for the controversy it arouses.

Moreover,American Beauty teaches us a lot about what is reality and what is iridescent illusion.Anything that appears to be as placid as the transparent surface of a still lake maybe be deadly perilous.So it is with our life.While many of us are under the delusion that everything goes on smoothly,all is well,life is totally in control ,etc ,etc,the film obnoxiously shatters your dream:Oh Please wake up!Don't be so naive!Life is rather unpredictable and uncontrollable than you think.While we deem ourselves as masters of our life,actually we much more resemble the plastic bag shown in the film-at the mercy of the wind,the wind of life.Who knows when it will spin desperately out of control and dreadfully give you an unanticipated and fatal blow?(just see the Lesters )And when it happens,the only thing you can do is to return to reality.Wave adieux to your fantasy just like Lester does to his Angela.Go back to your real life,though it's not that snug and cozy!

I'm a big fan of the whole series,but this one is obviously not up to my expectations.Not comparable to any other one in the series..The whole story was set on a planet without weapons and,I have to admit, it's a creative idea.However the storylines are somewhat boring and dull..No surprising twists.Many plots have been simplified and similar scenes repeat and repeat for sooo many times.Monotonous!Those silly prisoners acted as if they were idiots and they were just asking for trouble!!No wonder they were all killed by ONLY one alien.Disappointing. Alien 3 could be designed better ....