Freiburg Movies

The CPI (Chemistry and Physics of Interfaces) group, my group, at Imtek decided to go see the highly acclaimed movie Inception. As some of the group does not speak German we decided to see it in its original version, English. After making dinner with Pandi, I decided we would have brinner (Breakfast/Dinner) with hashbrowns and one eyed sailors we made our way to the movie theater. After meeting everyone and buying tickets we had time to spare and did what any German does with spare time, went to drink a beer. We went to the BierHaus, which is the first place I have been that has a large selection of beers. They had ales, lagers, stouts, porters, pils, weissbier and more from all over the world! I had a lager from Munich which was quite tasty. We then went to the movie. After sitting through the German previews, something that made a few of us quite nervous about the language of the movie, it began. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, the first scene is in Chinese with subtitles. In this showing of the "original" version, those subtitles were in German... A few of us got very nervous. However once the movie began the dialogue was in the original English. It's quite interesting that even in its supposedly original state in a showing for people who must speak English, the subtitles were German. It was also interesting to discuss with Pandi that most American movies shown in Germany will be dubbed, while when foreign films come to the US they are very often just subtitled to keep the original feeling and voices. I suppose since so many movies come from the US it makes some sense but I wonder how much changes with the out of sync lips and different voices. The movie was excellent and we all had a very good time.