The movie The Baader and Meinhof Complex was nothing I expected. The students rebelled against their country becoming guerrilla instead of protesting for their cause. I did not understand their thinking. I do not believe that their point was really made through. The group declared that its aim was to escalate the conflict between the state and its opposition, between those who exploited the Third World. Some of what they did worked towards their cause but I believe that the overall attempt was a fail. It reminded me much of what has been going on with the Ferguson trial. It first begins as a protest quietly then it turns into violence. Hundreds turned out to demonstrate against repression and dictatorship in Iran, some trying to disrupt the Shah's visit to the opera with paint and flour bombs. They were met with pro-Iranian demonstrators, flown and bussed in by the Shah's secret services. While Berlin's opera performed Mozart's magic flute, outside the pro-Shah activists turned on the student protesters. Eventually, they intervene “ not to separate the two groups but to assist in the brutal beating of the pro-democracy protesters. Groups like the Red Army Faction (RAF) could only make sense in a context where police brutality was the accepted response to young people's political concerns. Other young people rise after this protest and are angered by the fact that a person is murdered and the German police do not do anything. Right after that scene there is a big Protest and a speech where they are speaking about wanting America out of Germany. They are tires of having the influence of America in Germany and havening Germany soil being used to make bases for American for the Vietnam wars. During the Cold War, Germany became the center for all the tensions between Democracy and Communism. The location of Germany as the gateway between East and West Europe made it the ideal place for these political struggles to occur. He speaks against t the Vietnam War and as he leaves he gets shot also. Esslin is moved by Meinhof and is very upset. She explains her ideas to her father that being quiet and is no longer an option. It is time to take action. Her father continuously disagrees. As the movies fast forwards to her being in a group of bombing a store it also shows different countries showing youth protesting. At first I wondered why it showed Martin Luther King and then John F Kennedy and then it jumped to Paris