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How can one movie be parody, dramatically intense, frightening, reassuring, very touching, slapstick and heartbreaking? I'm not sure how exactly to describe this in a shorthand version. One of the best movies I have seen in years.
As a kid, i asked my German grandfather about his experience during WW2 ( he was 17, when the war ended) Since I was quite young, he only told me a few things But he shared the story of what happened, when he was 15 and his local priest told him, he have to show up, at church regularly He told the priest, the only thing, I Have to do is ..then he performed the right arm party greeting and walked away on him I never will forget, how ashamed and betrayed his voice sounded and his face looked, when he told me that story I wished he lived long enough to see Jojo rabbit
The silliness and joking tone is partly that it’s Jojos perspective, but also taking on Mel Brooks approach- the best way to disarm that kind of system is to laugh at it. Not to say that bleaker perspectives are wrong or underestimate that it can gain a lot of power, but laughing at it is attacking their central source of power and best way to undermine their continued draw.
i dont have the mental capacity to type out a whole essay about why right now but this was one of the best reactions i have seen of this movie, thank you i subscribed and will definitely be watching more
Watched a lot of reactions but just realized something. After the mom told the girl a woman looks the tiger in the eye and Elsa looks at the painting, she develops the courage to confront the gestapo and impersonate Inga without stumbling out getting overcome
Such a great movie. Unexpected. I initially didn't watch it. Based on the trailers, I thought there was no way it was appropriate to laugh at Hitler. But after finally watching, in context it is a genius movie
An amazing piece of cinema, perhaps Taika's greatest movie ever. A time when "being a good person" had 2 Very different meanings. Great commentary and reactions, guys.
Another 2019 movie I recommend is Alita Battle Angel, James Cameron's OTHER long-developed franchise, which he finally found a way to get out there by letting his friend Robert Rodriguez direct. It's one that many haven't seen, because they either haven't heard the title or don't know how good it is.
the pink triangle is the equivalent of the star of david the jews had to wear, to identify "undesirable" individuals. so i think it's safe to say yes they were a couple
You got it but missed the explicit piece on Captain K and his boyfriend. They were wearing pink triangles, which is the badge the Nazis gave homosexuals. Captain K was a loyal German but not a Nazi. They were going out as who they were but in a way spitting in the Nazi regimes face.
Love this movie. Now you should watch Lubitsch's classic To Be or Not to Be, best "comedy" about nazis ever! Oh, and about the captain and the other man being a couple, yes, during the final fight they were both wearing a pink triangle on their uniform, that's how nazis marked gay people in the camps and ghettos.
They do screw up the history at the very end of the movie. Due to the agreement with the Soviets, where the Western Allies would stop at the Elba, the Americans never went on to Berlin. The conquest of Berlin was a complete Soviet operation.
actually, nate, the complete opposite happened. Germany didn't have enough of the idealized Aryan (blonde, blue eyes) so they eventually made exceptions (dark hair, brown eyes, etc) as long as the person was a "superior" specimen.
After watching this I had to go watch the movie adaption of Watership Down. It is about a rabbit and it's colony. It is a book we read in school that is VERY intense. I wouldn't recommend the book or the movie for a child under 13 today.
When the butterfly appears...I know the reactor is about to be hit hard and has no idea what is coming. There are only two movies I know of that successfully parody Nazism in a way to denigrate it effectively. "The Producers" is the original one. Springtime for Hitler will always be one of my favorite songs!!! But "The Producers" was pure parody. This is both parody and serious. And mixes the two amazingly well. "The Producers" was a sledgehammer of parody, and did a wonderful job. This movie surgically dissects Nazism on all levels and reveals it as idiotic as well as tragic. And the best part, having a part-Polynesian, part-Jewish person play Hitler would make Hitler's head explode.
The very awkward… greeting scene with Stephen Merchant etc, all the awkward repetition was very much on purpose. Tying to the rest of the movies take that their entire ideology, while obviously incredibly dangerous because of the people that bought into it, was absurd and full of contradictions and fixation on image that adds to the underlying weakness of the ideas themselves. They’re so stuck on professing loyalty that they waste immense time and energy on small pointless things like that. The broader idea that fascism is a bully’s mentality- a fragile core covered over with layers of performative “unity” based on fear.
I don’t know if you will see this, but please react to the movie 1776, and release it on July 4th! It’s another movie that mixes lots of humor with moments of deadly seriousness.
This movie made me question why i watch movies. Script was really dumb, taika is just a complete idiot. Acting was okay, but cant really do much with this material. Almost as bad as love and thunder. The movie that killed the mcu :D
Many will disagree with you on this. But you are entitled to your opinion. It was a risk to make this movie. Like the classic Mel Brooks movie "The Producers" you take a risk going this route. Not everyone will like it. I personally think this movie is brilliant. Shifting from uncomfortable, serious, and funny so fast it keeps you guessing. But I respect a dissenting view. When a movie deals with a very difficult topic it is going to create many opinions. I disagree with you. But don't let anyone tell you you are wrong in your opinion. It is your honest opinion.
@davidmichaelson1092 I just don't find it funny. I think it could have been an interesting movie if all the taika bits were removed. The man's sense of humor is similar to a 12yr Olds. Basic. I'm sure there were parts I liked, but all I can remember is the dumb and dumber esq feeling of the movie. Stuff like that I can't enjoy. I'll never understand that sort of...comedy.
@@elusiveDEVIANT I can understand where you are coming from. And what I am going to say is not trying to convince you to feel other than you feel. I merely want to present my personal feelings about it. I feel Taika did this intentionally. He wanted to make fun of Nazism to denigrate it (as The Producers did) but he also wanted to portray how a 10 year old boy in Nazi Germany would have envisioned Hitler. So the juvenile humor makes sense in that context. Interestingly normally I would agree with you regarding Dumb and Dumber style of humor. I normally don't like it at all. For me, somehow, it worked in Jojo Rabbit. I will say I think my housemate agrees with you. She and I usually have similar tastes, but in this case she agrees with you and not me. Full respect for your views. I understand them and respect your dissenting viewpoint. For me, I think if it was ONLY the dumb/dumber approach it would not have worked. The Producers could pull that off because it was Mel Brooks, Gene Widler, and Zero Mostel and they can pull anything off. Waititi probably could not have succeeded. But the mixture of the humor and, increasingly as you go along, the horror made it work for me personlly.
It's hard to see your viewpoint. Dumb and Dumber? Not sure what you mean. I know of that movie and know I didn't like it, but I did like this movie. I do agree with you that Thor Love and Thunder was in many ways a mess. Ragnarok, on the other hand, I liked.
