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I thought the movie was well done. I definitely have questions about why Hollywood would choose to make such a movie at just such a time. Who thought it was saying something that needed to be said? And why right now? Is the public hungry for a movie about the Nuremberg Trials??

I thought it was surprisingly even handed and subtle.

There’s no question that Goering was a bad guy — but the movie allows him to be somewhat sympathetic.

There is no question that the Nazis were beasts — starting wars, invading countries, exterminating whole peoples — but there were no laws against that (it was all somewhat new) — can you put people on trial for actions against which there are no laws? It’s an interesting question and I give the movie credit for not shying away from the whole concept.

I was looking for an subliminal “anti-Trump” message in the whole thing and I really didn’t see it. The line about Hitler that you highlight: “he made us feel German again” did stand out and it was the closest the movie came to implying that Making America Great Again is a Nazi message. But if I see it that way, I think I am a little hyper-sensitive. Overall, if the movie wanted to say “Goering is Trump” or something, they really should have tried harder.

I thought this was a fair exploration of the issues. And I think the big message in everything is always “People are flawed”. We do bad things. We follow bad people. We think we are the Good Guys when in fact we are sometimes the Bad Guys. I thought that came through pretty clearly. And while some people may want to think that is a message for Trump supporters, I really saw that as a message about the supporters of The Deep State. The people being so noble and saving “Our Democracy”. Maybe those people ought to look in the damn mirror.