STEPHEN KING'S BEST OF 2007: MOVIES

3. THE LIVES OF OTHERS
It's about eavesdropping, but for once not about the people who are being listened to. This one is about the listener: party hack Gerd Wiesler, brilliantly played by Ulrich Mühe (pictured in background), who died much too soon. ''Peek not at a knothole, lest ye be vexed,'' my mother used to tell my brother and me; the moral of this story is ''Listen not at one, lest ye be changed.''