Truly Dreadful Film

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A teacher begins a group on the concept of Autocracy and goes about (innocently) getting his students to conform.Things get out of hand, in a very predictable fashion.Essentially belonging to a group can be delightful, yet castigating and ignoring outsiders has it's drawbacks. Well done indeed.The fact that this is German lends some credence but this feels like it relies far too much on the subjects (and possibly the audience too) being teenagers, as it really feels like a lot of teenagers acting like teenagers -- one of the initial group drops out simply because the 'uniform' doesn't suit her -- and the many expected graffiti and partying scenes get annoying very quickly.The concept is still largely unbelievable in a modern world, and the script does little to convince otherwise.

I remember learning about "the wave" in school, we had watched the older made for TV movie. Rainer Wenger reminded me of some of the teachers I had in high school. Some of the students's attitudes reminded me of how we felt and acted in school. The teachers did, at times, get us to stand up and move around to wake us up, so it's not like Wenger was doing anything that would necessarily stand out at first. The trouble I had with this story-line were the bizarre fights and run-ins the students had with townie anarchists (only way I can describe them) and the ending. I doubt Germany has roving anarchists looking to fight teenagers. That part makes no sense to me. I thought the way Wenger was ending the experiment was realistic. He had the students reflect on their experience in The Wave and read some excerpts on stage in an auditorium. In real life, Ron Jones did enjoy the power of being the leader beyond what he imagined and it took him a while to come to terms with that. Wenger was much quicker to realize that and to admit that to the students. I also had trouble with how into "The Wave" Tim got. Enough to buy a gun, shoot a fellow student and himself? That's a fast progression to happen in a week. Even with those two troubles I feel this movie showed how fascism/autocracy could start and rise. We're all susceptible.

Die Welle is the movie style that makes us think about issues that sometimes we think is obvious, but they are not, and need a more striking proof to be obvious.The German film has all its modern photography, of a European city fully globalization, which all citizens believes to be stabilized, but its way of thinking becomes influential for problematic questions, which we could never imagine they could become real again.A brilliant film, which at first, knowing only the synopsis, it is difficult to imagine how the rest of the film will be, and little by little, starts being increasingly surprising until its surprising and sad end.The film makes clear how the fascist and dictatorial governments are failures, unjust and devastating. Everyone should watch this nice movie !

Few are the movies that take the viewer deep into the story line and the characters from the first minute. the wave is one of them. Simple plot like any teenagers movie, but focusing on the character performance and the reaction with the screen enriched the plot without tending for exploitation and erotic messages, nothing but simply innocent teenagers who have the ability of changing and improving like teenagers in every society, but the main issue is who and how to lead these teenagers through the changing process and what ideology must be adopted to unite them onto same objective. The motto is very clear, proving that fascism could be raised in every society however they claim immune. Recommended as for viewers who are looking for quality movies.