I was going to watch the first half of the movie and then go to sleep, but I stayed up well past my bedtime because, as it turns out, The Lives of Others is some pumpkins.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.