Posted on 01/23/2020 12:31:49 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
It once felt impious just to mention Auschwitz. Now, 75 years after its liberation, the death camp has spawned a literary subgenre – and Hitler is in Oscar-nominated comedy Jojo Rabbit. Are we betraying the dead?
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The parts of the movie that were silly and with the imaginary friend were nit as great. The serious, moving, and just a tad hopeful were fantastic. The scenes between the boy and the older girl were great. The last half hour or so was 95% great. I wish the director had focused on the realistic and serious parts, and taken his part out of the movie.
Sam Rockwell does have the funniest line in the movie, and he does well, even when the director doesn’t give him great material. His last seen was amazing though. This movie has some great scenes depicting the chaos of the Allies liberatibg Berlin. Except when they throw ridiculous stuff in.
Cannot forget history. We’ll keep repeating it.
>> Hitler is in Oscar-nominated comedy Jojo Rabbit. Are we betraying the dead?
And Netflix recently released a “comedy” depicting a “Gay Jesus”
Are we all on the same page, or is some comedy less offensive than others?
I’m inclined to ignore it.
The “arts” are far less a threat than the govt. And principally, the “artistic” idiots should enjoy the right to offend, but to the exclusion of involving minors.
Comedic exploration of what went on in Nazi Germany is probably the best way to get people to look at what happened with scaring them away.
Comedy, like art, can get the truth out when the truth is verboten (and it usually is).
And satire and slapstick comedy is a fine and effective way to talk about the dead without betraying them when that kind of comedy gets the truth out.
That said, lying about the dead is probably worse than forgetting about them.
This tendency to lighten the moral burden for the activities of the Nazi regime started with Hogans Heroes.
Lately the Europeans made a movie called “He’s Back” showing Hitler as someone who would fit right in to modern Germany. Most states in the US would disappear if 6 million people in that state were killed. and of the 12 that wouldn’t disappear, only california and texas would still have 3/4’s of their population. florida and new york would lose half, and the rest would lose up to 80%. That was the size of the murders committed. It’s not funny. At the Imperial war museum at Bedlam, If you go through the area dedicated to Bergen Belsen, it’s hard not to be physically sick at man’s inhumanity to man. In the 80’s in Florida, while checking out from Publix, the old gentleman bagging offered to take my cart to the car, It was July, aith 96 degree temps and the usual 120% humidity. He had on a long sleeve shirt. I said I could push my own cart , but he said, “It’s my Job”. OK dignity issue, even though I was at least 40 years younger I let him push the cart to the car. As we unloaded the cart, I said “ Tough day with this heat”, he looked at me with a smile, rolled his sleeve up to show me the tattooed numbers on his arm and said” It’s not a tough day at all, not at all”. I understood immediately that I had no concept of a tough day.
I was just wondering whether to see the movie — so I take it that you give a recommend?
As someone who has lived in Poland for the past ten years I still can’t believe what horrors the 2nd world war wrought. Horrors is the only word.
You are right - comedic exploration is the only way to make sense of that madness.
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