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the fact that Hitler was vegetarian and non-smoking proves that the boy didn't really know what Hitler was like.

OK, Simone, I recognize this video is over 4 months old. And I have left a very similar comment on a much more recent video of yours. It´s just that I haven´t seen Jojo Rabbit myself until today.... But anyway.... I just wanted to tell you, that I just LOVE your hair............... :-)

Oh, and I also LOVED Jojo Rabbit, but I think, that´s kind of a given....

@11:32 , thats in fact incorrect , he didnt leave because of jessie owens , what actually happened was he was supposed to go and personally meet the winners , but when jessie won he was still going to meet jessie as if he was anyone else but his staff panicked and suggested meeting the winners might look bad if a jewish person won as a loosely veiled excuse to stop the jessie owens meeting going ahead , it was at that point no more winners would get the personal greeting regardless of who it was

Maybe he knew all along about Elsa but he didn’t tell anyone cause he respected Rosie, and when he told Jojo what would happen if someone was hiding a Jew, he was really using that to get him not to tell anyone about elsa if he knew, and when he came to Jojo’s house after rosies death he did it to not just help Jojo but to make sure they didn’t find Elsa

I didn't notice or pay attention to the bike on first watching. But yeah, he was definitely coming to protect Jojo.

Thing is, Sam Rockwell's character, Kesseldorf, was a real person. He was a Nazi captain who grew disillusioned with the Nazi party, but felt trapped and as if he had nowhere else to go. You can kinda see it in his character through out the film, with a nice subtle one being that he is the only one not smiling when the kids are burning books. Instead, he sips from his flask with disgust.

@@CasualRonin Absolutely. I noticed that the second time I watched it. And the beauty of the scene is that it could easily be interpreted as him being miserable because of his demotion, but you watch it again, and you see all the layers going on. He turned in such a great performance in this movie. It breaks my heart. And his ending… it didn’t matter who won the war… he was dead either way, so he and Freddie just went out in a blaze of glory as they truly were.

@@ajscarecraft5560 I don't think he knew definitely but he put two and two together when we saw Elsa, hence the contemplating face.

yeah, that was my reaction too.

Were any of us?

Lost in this by many, as I've never seen a reactor mention it, is that Jo Jo knew how to tie shoes the whole time. He just loved when his mom did it for him. Emotionally powerful scene when he ties her shoes.

I was thinking the same thing.

That scene really needs to come with a warning label. I swear when I saw it in the theater I couldn't breathe. So when they kind of caught on way too early about shoes being a theme I simply thought "Oh, you have no idea."

My anxeity levels during that scene could have solved the energy shortage in the world.

In the book burning scene Rockwell is portrayed as a villain character, the way he scans what is going on. But after the movie you see that it was just a look of utter disgust.

He surely knew but the friendship and loyalty was stronger in him

@@chand911because he’s gay I think - the Nazis hated gays back then just as the modern ones do today - they hate gays and trans people

​@@dominikfabianowski2182 I never noticed that until watching this!

@@loretogestoso6218 The entire reason he was there was because he knew his mom got caught, so he sped there to protect Jojo. That's also why he told him to stay at home, because he knew he'd see her ...

“Oh, hurray. In a lifetime of evil, at least he didn't add animal cruelty to the list!”

@@kenouk6183 Ahahahaha!

It wasn't really subtle, more unintentional. Taika didn't do any research on Hitler as a person.

hes a writer and writers research the most@@SandJosieph

@@rey8805 He’s actually said in an interview that he did no research on Hitler because "Fuck that guy…".

Tbf The whole world was homophobic during those times I mean we all know what Brits did to Alan Turing

Satwik Pandey Not all Mostly the West Not the east

@@satwikpandey2404 When the Allies were rescuing Jews, Romani, etc from concentration camps, they didn't free people who were imprisoned for being LGBT+.

Yeah... the entire world was anti-gay at the time. Now, it's just 80% and trends point it going back that way long term as the west birth rates collapse. There are pluses and minuses to each scenario.

One of the most disturbing things I saw on a tour of several Concentration Camps was that the small plaque dedicated to those LGBTQ+ people who suffered in the camps was hidden in a corner, not even the other inmates of the camp would allow the LGBTQ+ who suffered WITH them to be included. That was, pretty f**ked up.

The tv show Barry does this as well.

Blackadder Goes Fourth handles WWW 1 Suitably too.

Watch the Bollywood movie "3 Idiots" (2009).

Every single Wes Anderson film

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Thats a great point!

Taika said he couldn't think of a better screw you to Hitler than to have a Jewish person play him. Also, the kid JoJo, this was his first role. He said Taika always made sure to be as nice as possible when wearing the outfit so he didn't scare him. But there was one day on set when they were doing the far away shots outside with JoJo and his mom and then Hitler spying on them in disgust...he got really frustrated that day and began to yell a bit. The kid said it was really trippy.

Must stem from Jojo's childish imagination of 'Hitler, the super cool & cigarette smoking Masculine Man'

@@dgrmn12345 I perceived it as the film trying to show you that Jojo doesn’t actually know anything about Hitler and wanted to further prove that jojo just wants to be able to fit in somewhere and have an idol.

i always thought it was a part of jojo that knew that hitler was harmful to him in some way, metaphorically like

I think the tobacco industry missed a trick. "You know who else hated smoking? HITLER!"

I think in one of the interviews Taika said that he purposefully didn't portrait Hitler accurately, because Hitler doesn't deserve someone making effort to do so.

he wasn't vegetarian.

@@slinkyboo-boo he was. don’t know for how long but he was

@@zhalo_9388 5 minutes .

@@slinkyboo-boo He was buddy, learn some history first and then talk. Germany back then was the first country ever to have animal rights, seriously learn some history stop being ignorant.

@@stanmarsh4566 there are records from his chef... he ate meat.

As allies under the Tripartite Pact, the Japanese were deemed honorary Aryans by Nazi Germany. Peoples of some other allied (to the Axis) nations were also deemed honorary Aryans.

Rent free, bitch!

The slow but pronounced change in their facial expression when it dawned on them was worth the price of admission.

In order for it to be funded they said they would only do it if he played Hitler.

One of the best setup / payoff of this decade

Everybody needs their personal Yorkie. And everybody needs to be somebody's Yorkie.

that doesn't make him less of guilty person who profited with the war. Also, he used forced labour to make them.

@@felix-the-mongoose Never said he wasn’t guilty.

No it's not. Doesn't have the basket and different color.

@@craigplatel813 exactly, thank you, I'm tired of correcting this particular rumour... it's also got a different general frame, his is a "man's bike" her's a "woman's bike" with a lower frame... also I believe that waitiki has denied that rumour as true, it's just his own bike... also I don't understand why he would even bother to bring her bike, to highlight that he knows them to the gestapo guys? A really weird but persistent fan theory, easily checked by just comparing the bikes, they are not even similar, quick google search does it

How is it relative to the current world political climate? Genuinely interested in your thoughts. I teach Media Studies and this is one of our films.

@@M1cha3lP I view it through the lense of how the left broadly views the Trump administration - shockingly incompetent and still incredibly dangerous to society at large. Our introduction to the SS in the film happens far into Jojo's deradicalization, but it's the radicalization existing at all that allows them to get away with it. I find that this movie has a lot to say about the path to radicalization which, while not directly targeted at Trump, can be neatly laid over his political career. The clearest example, to me, is Jojo's imaginary friend, an idealized version of Hitler who does the things that Jojo thinks a heroic leader would do. He smokes (Hitler detested smoking), he eats a roasted unicorn (Hitler was a vegetarian by doctor's order, something which the government used for PR and would have been relatively common knowledge when the movie takes place)... Jojo's version of Hitler is utterly divorced from the man himself. This is remarkably on-the-nose when considering the religious right's infatuation with (and sometimes literal deification of) Donald Trump. A man who has spent much of his very public life bragging about his many vices has become to many an ideal symbol of Christian piety in America. Nothing anyone, including Trump, says or does can shake that faith. Similarly, the only reason Jojo begins to doubt his faith in Hitler is that he suffers an injury that places him outside of the in-group. Where he would be distracted learning aquatic combat, now he has time to ask questions, and some of the answers he finds ("you tell us, we tell the ss, they go kill the jew. And anybody who knew about the jew. And probably a few other people as well") make him question the moral authority he had previously accepted. Obviously, this film is intended to tell a personal story and make fascists look goofy, but that goofiness is mirrored by reality.

@@explody7836 "A man who has spent much of his very public life bragging about his many vices has become to many an ideal symbol of Christian piety in America. Nothing anyone, including Trump, says or does can shake that faith." Well said, and well compared to JoJo's naive worship of Hitler.

@@explody7836You need to keep some help for your Trump detachment symptoms. The fact that you would even make the comparison is lot only disgusting to real victims but it also shows how dishonest of a person you are. Especially considering the fact that young girls who speak out against having a trans student (who still have male parts) in the locker room (who stares at them while they change) is uncomfortable for them. Yet they are the ones who are punished. The right wing wasn’t the one who punished those girls, it was those who believed in the left. And I still wouldn’t compare any of its members to Hitler. You truly are a horrible person who’s blinded by hate.

@@shayla106 lol sure

Or Nick Frost and Simon Pegg can be in the sequel 😆

Such a brilliant idea!!!

Yaaaaassss

K also looks terrified when he thinks Merchant is asking to see the papers too.

It was only on my second viewing that I noticed that that was what she said about her hanged comrades.

If was only when I read this comment that I noticed it

And what JoJo says to himself at the end

I loved Yorkies reaction when that missile accidentally went off . Everyone looked horrified and he just said " Oh gawd"

Almost all of the actors portraying the recurring German characters were Jewish. The actor who played Lebeau was a concentration camp survivor. Werner Kemper (Colonel Klink) said he would walk if any of Klink's plans succeeded. Consider the show aired only 20 years after the end of WW II.

Is it REALLY a fault? I believe it was done intentionally. It definitely makes a greater impact if you’re just expecting a comedy.

yeah i think it was intentional@@Parallax-3D

BOY was filmed in my birthplace. It's a quintessentially Aotearoan piece of cinema.

I saw Jojo Rabbit in the cinema when it came out and when that scene came on I swear you coul hear a pin drop, it was such an unexpected gut punch

such an underrated film, the performances are so great. It also delves that line of ridiculous then just brutal the next. Satire mocks, good satire makes the viewer uncomfortable- that's why it's so important to have films that challenge us, but also entertain, because they impact individuals so deeply. Art is life, life is art as they say

Both movies should be watched together

When Captain K inspects Inge’s papers, he tells Elsa, “Get a new picture. You look like a ghost.” He obviously knew the real Inge was dead.

I never noticed that on my own watch throughs. I'm glad there are these reaction channels that can help me see and understand things in movies that I might miss

Every time they say how wonderful Rosie is, with growing fondness each time just shows how important it is to build up love in the audience for these characters that meet their untimely end. That is how you deliver a cinematic gut-punch.

Yes me too! The butterflies in the tummy for love. The butterfly innocence of youth surrounded by armed men with panzerfausts and then the transition to the shoes, which had been carefully foreshadowed..... remarkable film making

I mention that film on a lot of reactor's comments. Its such a great one.

It’s like when someone says “nothing better happen to this dog” when watching John Wick.

I understand your concern about the Russians executing their captives as depicted, but it is historical fact that in the real war the Russian soldiers were out for revenge for all the terrible massacres and other atrocities the Germans had carried out on the Russian people, so when they captured German territory they felt justified in taking that revenge. Knowing this, the German soldiers at the end of the war tried to surrender to the Americans or British etc. if they could. None of this is pleasant, but it is what happened. I'm sorry your great-grandfather had to die defending his homeland against one enemy, while under a regime he also despised - a tragic no-win situation.

@@phillipridgway8317 I won't argue with most of your points, but war crimes on german soil were committed by every allied force (Red army is responsible for most of them, no doubt, but not overwhelmingly). It's the stereotypical symbolism that bothers me here. I'm often called americanophile, and I get it, post-soviet countries are not the main market for this movie, but a brief acknowlegement of the fact that the Red Army wasn't (or at least not in the whole) some bloodthirsty band that kills positive characters for being retired wehrmacht officers would've been nice from this movie. Russian movies are no better in this sense (but backwards) anyway, I assure you.

He was also eating meat Hitler was vegan it shows how little Jojo knew.

@@crazyguy_1233 I don't think he was vegan, he's said generally to have been vegetarian

Great observation.

That was both a great book and a great movie.

He’s also Jewish. His real name is Taika David Cohen.