One thing easy to miss in this movie is the scene when the Gestapo shows up to investigate the home. The reason they are there is because they just hanged his mother and they are looking for evidence of other people involved. Sam Rockwell's character also knows she's dead so he races to the house on the bicycle to save him which is why he was aware of enough of the situation to save Elsa and why he tells Elsa to look after her brother.
Yes I never saw it first time through. It was her bike he came to the house on. So he definitely knew before he got there. I'd like to say he's my favourite character but everyone does such a great job that each deserve the title in my mind.
@@dneill8493 it was not her bike, her bike is a woman's bike (with a low frame), his is a man's bike (with a high frame), very different frames... also almost all else is different. This is a wrong fan theory, that has been debunked numerous times, and apparently, though i have not seen this interview myself, has also been called wrong by Waititi himself. But you just have to google search or rewatch the scenes and realize those are two fundamentally different bicycles.
@@Bunny_AoifeI thought it was her bike the 2nd time I saw it so when I saw people discussing it on these reaction channels I assumed it was true. I'll have a look. I've never freezed the shot so Ive probably just convinced myself I'm seeing her bike in that short glimpse. Same way I guess that I know there are only 3 Indiana Jones films, sometimes we see what we want to see. 🤣
Jo Jo: "What did they do?" Rosie: "What they could." Rosie (as Papa Lion): "Take care of my Rosie. She's doing what she can." Those lines and the repeated shots of Rosie's shoes foreshadow her death. It took me several watches to pick up on that. This is a very well-written, beautiful movie.
@@Strider91 not really because there would definitely NOT been any propaganda of Hitler being pro-smoking or meat, as he was also openly vegetarian and I’m not a hitler expert lol but I think I remember hearing he war fairly anti-smoking or something not just that he didn’t personally
@@frokghug This propaganda is true, but the Brownshirts (SA) were nearly the only ones allowed to sell cigarettes. It's how they funded much of their cause. They threatened, killed and passed laws against all other sellers because they claimed that tobacco was a Jewish business. The average German spent one-tenth of his take home pay on cigarettes and the sales made up eight percent of Nazi Germany's state revenue. I am a historian. You don't read those facts in regular history books.
@@joelwillems4081 Oh that’s interesting! Thank you for the insight! I love learning things that aren’t often discussed. Though that would just further support that he doesn’t know who Hitler is, not necessarily his blind following of propaganda. Although if the brown shirts were selling the cigarettes, I could see how a little boy would connect that, in their head, to Hitler being a smoker.
It's like the underlying thing that is very real even now where in the film everyone in the town is "happy" but it's because they know everything is going to crap so they try to continue on and pretend everything is fine.
People talk about toxic masculinity a lot, but Sam Rockwell’s character is a perfect example of the opposite. Smiling while he’s dragged away, knowing that he saved Jojo’s life is just such an uplifting, emotional end for his character
@@TheFreshTrumpet On that, the final hoorah of him just firing at nothing, wearing his colourful frock, just his way of finally living true knowing it would be his last chance
Oh Cassie, my heart plummeted when you said 'cute shoes'. Thanks for the thoughtful and caring reaction to this movie. This movie is on my 'must watch' list of films!
21:26 is the reveal that Captain K knew Elsa was Jewish; by telling her to get a new photo because she looked like a ghost meant he knew Inge was dead and Elsa was hiding as her, and to improve the illusion she should try to get some better/more recent photo ID
it is. they kept showing her standing above jojo (the park and the pool scenes), and i actually first thought she was already dead. Even thinking that there was meaning in the continued shots didn't prepare me for what it was actually preparing me for. making sure you knew her shoes, and making sure you knew he did too.
3 things: Yes, sadly that footage at the beginning was indeed real. Hitler developed a serious cult like following from roughly 30 some percent of the German population that honestly saw him exactly as Jojo does (like some sort of hero). Second: camps like that one Jojo went to were in fact not only real but common place. It was all part of the indoctrination process. And finally, and rather tragically. These camps were actually so effective that on D day when the allies stormed the beaches at Normandy many cleaned out trenches and bunkers only to find they had killed young kids who clung to their Hitler youth knifes like holy relics. You might remember when you watched saving private Ryan on of the characters took a knife off a dead German. . . . .it was a Hitler Youth knife. . . . . EDIT: something most people miss in this is Captain Ks uniform he made for himself. He covered it with upside down Pink triangles. The Nazis used these like the stars of David but for homosexuals. They killed Gays, just like cripples and Jews. Throughout we see K and Finkle having these moments. . . . Turns out its because they were gay men, who were proud German soliders. . . . .then Hitler came. So in the end we see them drop the facade. And embrace who they are. It was a cool touch
Here's what is really crazy, thinking you need to post any piece of information here as if it wasn't already posted on patreon long before the video ever showed up here.
@@chand911 some of its for her, most of its for the TH-cam fans that don't know. I'll take any opportunity to spread knowledge. Knowledge and wealth are two things that at at their greatest value when shared 🤔😁
I'm a Media Studies teacher and this is one of the films we study. There are SO many layers to this film. The repeated symbolism and framing of Rosie's shoes, often at Jojo's eye level on left of screen that foreshadows the discovery of her death, making that awful reveal easier to portray on screen without having to show who it is or what has happened to her. The line "doing what they can" is used often to signify the fight against the Nazi oppression, a line that Jojo adopts for himself as he repeats his mirror-monologue, showing his complete character arc. The way they shot Elsa's introduction like a horror film. Even Cassie thought the film was turning into a horror! The butterflies, the tiger, the theme of love, the way that Hitler is represented as how an obsessed 10 year old would fanatise about him, with childlike mannerisms, etc. Repeat viewing is a must!
Sam Rockwell has an Oscar, and has been nominated a couple times, but he's somehow still one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. He's genuinely one of our best living actors. Dude has never turned in a subpar performance.
And you can see his devastation and resignation when the Gestapo man says "Wait!" and he thinks he has to give him Inge's papers. He thinks they are all about to be exposed and ruined. Him, Jojo, the hidden Jew and even his boyfriend....
Incredibly, it was the kid's first acting role. And he knocked it out of the park. Sam Rockwell's character represents the many Germans who had no choice but to serve or be killed. We often overlook that many German soldiers were conscripted and had no choice.
Colonel K and Finkel are also played to be lovers, K was never off the front lines for losing an eye, it was for being gay. He later incorporates a pink triangle in to his and Finkle's special uniform, a sort of out and proud last stand
@@backtoearth1983 Captain K being injured is why he got sent back. Its unlikely that it was known that he was gay as I that case he wouldn't have been allowed to continue to serve and likely put into prison or camps. Him having pink triangles on his uniform is, imo part of a last act of defiance against the regime he was fighting for, in an unwinnable situation by coming out. Captain K strikes me as a soldier through and through, a patriot to his country, but left to fight for a regime that doesn't mesh with his ideals. A subtle part of that is his behaviour at the book burning, he has to go along with it, but unlike the others, isn't happy about it. He also may have been close to Jojos mother, maybe even both knowing each others mutual secrets and keeping them, including knowing Inge was dead but knowing Rosie was giving the girl shelter, so went along and aided the falsehood, to protect primarily Jojo but also Elsa, because of personal connections and loyalties but also kmowinf that he and Elsa are in the same boat, they both belong to groups fhe nazis were actively persecuting.
@@RayvenQ K's and Rosie's relationship isn't explained in the movie, but they had to have been really close. I believe K knew Inge, and he also knew she was dead. The way he positioned himself to intercept the papers Elsa presented to the Gestapo was to shield her from further questioning. He also knew about Rosie's activities in the resistance and probably even that she was hiding a Jew, as evidenced by his final speech and the fact he rushed to Rosie's house after she was hanged. Rosie wouldn't have come out with it to someone she didn't know extremely well. They must have been close confidants, and that makes me think they were either related in some way (cousins?) or childhood friends.
It was very popularized by captain America, but there is a common philosophy that the first country the Nazis invaded was Germany. I feel like the lions share of Germans knew it was wrong but feared for their own lives.
I saw this in the cinema and the moment I saw Jojo’s mother’s shoes hanging was the most impactful and heartbreaking moment I’ve ever experienced. I let out a quite loud cry and basically couldn’t stop sobbing !!…Kind of embarrassing for a middle aged man in a crowded cinema! 😭 The way it lulls you with the beauty of an innocent child following a butterfly straight to the horror of that child losing his mother… I’ll never forget that moment.
No shame, man, I've seen it several times and I've got the sniffles from tears now. It's so impactful, and the symbolism used is just ... oof. It's a good movie.
Incredibly impactful. The use of the butterfly also strongly references the final sequence of the 1930 anti-war masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front.
One of the most effective moments in one of the best movies I've ever seen. Same boat. My girlfriend's best friend clowned me mercilessly about it for months (in good fun. She was my buddy, too, by then, and was just messing with me. Really she thought it fine, and it was just an excuse to throw me a hard time.) It's so hard to describe because it is so skilfully and seamlessly all over the place. Dead serious and truly tragic. Inspiring, hilarious, irreverent, poignant, just plain silly. You'll get a kick out of child soldiers, become more sympathetic to and more abhorrently disgusted by the h--t in two wildy different ways. It is a freaking roller coaster of a film. I've taken, when trying to show it to others, to describing it as actually delivering on Wayne's World's joke tagline of, "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl." Just might be my favorite movie of all time, and I ain't even near 20 anymore.
Taika’s father was of Maori ancestry, his mother is of Russian Jewish ancestry. He felt there was no greater insult to Hitler than to have him be played by a Jewish person of color.
@@Samminish oof. like i appreciate the sentiment but honestly it's the weirdest thing for a vet to hear. i only meant for it to give context as someone who saw weird shit go down. like i'm not a kindergarten teacher who eats paste and aligns their chakras. also the funniest shit is to say "thank you for your service" to a coastie haha
@@MarkMcLT "the shoes" is a spoiler? do you understand that she has already reacted to this movie and it is a cut-down version of the patreon fuill reaction? if someone hasn't already seen this movie, then the whole video is a spoiler. what are you talking about?
@@drone6675 the coastie thing. I'm fucking dying. Even tho you're a pog. Semper Fi. Brother. We joke but when the fan gets hit. We are all together. E5 marine. Dd214 retired against my will. Lol
I consider this film to be pure genius. The brilliance and care required to balance the humor, beauty, darkness, and tragedy… essentially it is perfection. I had to go back and immediately watch it a second time.
When you said "cute shoes", it hurt to know what those shoes end up revealing later on. Also, the important part with Waititi's Hitler is that we're getting exactly what a 10 year old would think that Hitler would be. He's a happy, goofball friend who is Jojo's hero. The ending when Jojo becomes disillusioned and finally realizes what Hitler is, that's the moment when he's now cruel to him and is no longer his friend. Out the window he goes.
My favorite moment in the film was when Taika asks "What are you burning?" and JoJo says "She can't hear you." and so he yells "What Are You BURNING?" Sam was great in this, he was self sacrificing. I think his mother might have been hanged already when they came to search her house. Sams friend was "Reek" from Game Of Thrones. "NO STABBING!"
IMO this film should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the year. Its wonderfully shot, has a great story and performances, and its an emotional roller coaster ride. Im glad you like it Cassie. See ya on the next vid.
The Hitler character was not only there to be Hitler, but to be Jo Jo's inner voice. Think when Jo Jo asks him if he thinks he is ugly and Taika doesn't even hesitate with his 'yes' ... It was Jo Jo saying that to himself. So crazy good! I was hoping you would do this movie. Thank you.
He was also ment to be a representation of how Jojo saw Hitler. You will also notice that as Jojo becomes more grounded in reality, he starts to see his own Hitler differently
And toward the beginning, Hitler said Jojo looked good, then it shifted to him thinking he was ugly. That tonal shift from when Hitler was switching from an idealized character to someone who couldn't brainwash him anymore was beautifully subtle throughout. Love this movie!
I've watched this movie so many times, and every reaction that I've been able to find too. I love it so much - the beauty, the message, the digestibility, the unique perspective of a brainwashed child, and acknowledging the brave Germans who quietly did their best to fight a regime that had taken over their neighbourhoods, families and lives. Over several watches, I picked up these repeating themes: 'They did what they could' (Rosie about the hanged people; 'Dad' about Rosie, Jojo in the mirror); Rosie's rocking shoes at eye level (swimming pool, bicycle walk); dancing (Rosie walking in late at night; Rosie and Jojo in the lounge, Rosie on the bicycle walk, Jojo and Elsa at the end); Rabbit (People calling Jojo 'kid' in a german accent sounds like kitt which is a baby rabbit, rabbit killed at camp, rabbit surviving the winter snow); homosexuality (Captain K feeding the other guy cake; making up after the german shepherd incident; rocking their designed battle costumes together in the slow motion sequence); rock star music (Beatles in german in start credits; David Bowie in german in end credits). It's just a deliberately and beautifully designed film.
I am so glade you did this movie. My 14 year old son and 15 year old daughter made me purchase and watch this movie last year. I was not too excited. I was into WW2 history for a time and was interested in the psychology large groups of people. Plus My son and I are huge movie nuts. Anyways I watched this movie and was absolutely amazed by the nuance and detail of writing and directing. This movie is easily my top five over all best movie choices. Just as an example: The shoes were a major detail and you even made a comment about how nice they were when the mother was dancing on that concrete wall. As soon as you said that I knew you were going to have super strong response, when you see them in the air. The casting is absolutely perfect. The casting director needs an award, who ever that my be. I think this is one of Scarlet Johansson best performances, and same with Sam Rockwell, other than his roll in the Great Mile. This movie incapsulated everything I was trying to find. It’s absolutely a work of art.
Comedy + WWII + The Holocaust is a very hard combination to film well, yet, somehow Taika nailed it for Jojo Rabbit. The only other movie I can think of that has successfully done comedy while not downplaying the atrocities and horror of the Third Reich was "Life Is Beautiful, 1997" (or La vita è bella in the original Italian title). It's most definitely worth a watch!
Yep I think that is his biggest accomplishment. Been tons of war movies and even been comedy maybe 2 of ww2 and countless dramas of the horror of ww2. But this was comedy took in direction that I personally haven't heard of before without the just killing nazi is funny to people attitude.
Stalag 17. Very funny in spots that were supposed to be funny. But also deadly serious in the stakes. But balancing comedy & drama without undercutting either was something Billy Wilder did better than just about anyone. I agree that there are strong resemblances in this movie to Life Is Beautiful.
There have been some pretty great and important movies before that combined these things brilliantly. Namely "To Be Or Not To Be" by Ernst Lubitsch (who was a Jewish emigrant from Germany living in the US) from 1942 and "The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplin from 1940. Imagine what it meant that both of these movies were made when WWII was still going and Hitler still alive. Both movies are highly recommended and in my eyes mandatory to watch.
There was a reason that Time Magazine named him person of the year... twice. The Germans never even elected him though. He was appointed as second in command, did away with his superior and then forced a vote to become dictator. Fear and ignorance, those were his weapons, like Putin.
The German people actually regarded him as a rockstar at the time. Which explains why he could charm the women to bear 'his children' so he would have an enormous army. German mothers were awarded medals for having three or more children. So in 1933 Hitler came to power. And in 1945, the first batch of Hitler kids was ready to hit the battle streets of Berlin.
Became an instant top 5 for me after seeing this movie. Everything was Top Notch: Plot, Acting, Directing, Writing, Sets, Costumes, Character Development... This one is an instant classic for me. Great Reaction!
My father served in Patton's 3rd Army 42-45 (687th FAB)....Thru Normandy, the battle of the hedgerows, Battle of the Bulge... One of his last duties in Europe was helping "clean up" Buchenwald concentration camp in the spring of 45....He brought back pictures he took there.... He also told the story of "Hitler Youth".....Toward the end of the war they captured a few Hitler youth and the American C.O. had been in a German POW camp and HATED Germans. So he put the youth against a chalk board with their noses in a chalk ring and would beat them with a riding crop if they stepped down.....Dad volunteered to watch the kids while the CO. could go eat, drink, etc....Dad would let the kids sit down every time the CO left....Dad just saw KIDS....Misguided kids..... Just FYI....Captain K and his "assistant" are Gay.....The scene with them in their new fancy uniforms if you look closely, you will see inverted pink triangles ... Inverted pink triangles were sewn onto Nazi camp uniforms to signify homosexuals,,,,,
A family friend also served in Patton's army. In the headquarters. He wrote a book entitled, "The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army". He also took photos of Buchenwald and they are in the book. Eisenhower ordered every allied soldier within 100 miles to visit the camps. He knew the world would not want to believe it and so he wanted as many eyewitnesses as possible. Most men afterwards were unable to tell others what they saw there.
@@joelwillems4081 My mother burned those pictures long ago because dad would sometimes just take them out and look at them.......They left a giant scar....
I agree with you on Scarlett Johansson. This is her best performance. I thought she was fantastic as JoJo mother, she brought a real sweetness to the role while portraying a truly heroic person. Really well done.
Definitely some of her best performances. I also love her in Marriage Story, Lost in Translation and Under the Skin. She is really great drama actress.
I saw this in the theatre. When that scene…everyone here knows…happened, we all let out a collective gasp. This movie makes you laugh, cry, shout and leaves you heartbroken all in one
I been waiting on this one. The whole mood of the film changed. Iv studied this war for 13 years. It actually takes things comically insane. From the point of view of a child seeing and trying in his own mind to make sense of what he's seeing. It's brilliant.
I have seen this movie 6 times and have seen multiple reactions to it...still when he said "Jojo Betlzer 10 and a half years old...just do what you can" I got emotional again. It never hit me before that this went back to when he asked his mom what the hanged collaborators had done and she responded "what they could". This movie is insanely good and really makes you feel every single emotion
@@mike-mz6yz Just as a small point for accuracy, but I think it's important that the real historic people depicted there are correctly recognised: the people hanged in the town square were 'resistance', the very opposite of 'collaborators'.
"Is this part real? Did everybody have papers?" Oh mercy, how soon people forget! "Vhere are your paperz?" was once a cliche line for Nazis in Second World War movies. It's terrific that you've seen Private Ryan, Best Years, and Schindler, but you owe it to yourself to take in Judgment at Nuremberg, The Young Lions, and Downfall.
In this film, Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo) gave one of the best child performances I have ever seen. Maybe even top 5. The whole cast is brilliant but pretty much the whole film is on his shoulders and he pulled it off beautifully. This film has one the the saddest scenes I've ever seen in a film (the butterfly/shoe reveal) and yet at the same time is, I think, one of the best and funniest comedies of the last decade. That's not easy to do but Taika Waititi did it. And ending with dancing to the German version of David Bowie's song Heroes (which was written about Berlin and recorded in Berlin) is absolute perfection.
One of my all time favorite movies! I've watched it over and over again, at least 7 times. I tell everyone I see that they have to watch it. It was so great to see your reaction. Keep up the good work!
I loved this movie the first time I watched it but I think I love it even more on every subsequent viewing. As you said, it's such a fine line but done perfectly. I think it can be easy to forget that not every German during WWII was evil. This movie is a nice tribute to all those that "did what they could."
This movie literally makes you feel every emotion and it’s crazy lol. But yes! Jojo and his little friend are the cutest friends ever 🤣 “I’m gonna go home to my mother. I need a cuddle.” 🥺
I was excited to watch your reaction to this, because I really expected you to enjoy it. Fantastic movie in so many ways. There's even a couple of extra humorous bits for those that speak German. It is certainly worth a second and third viewing. Thanks for reminding us of why we love movies. (btw. this is my alias. I am the family friend you met in Costco a few months back.)
I would argue that Jojo Rabbit is one of the best films ever made. It perfectly crafts a comedy around a touchy subject, and when you're not laughing your guts out, you're balling your eyes and reaching for tissues. When the movie is finally over, you're left literally speechless, as in you don't even know how to describe what you just watched. Been waiting for you to watch this one. Glad you liked it
This movie is powerful proof that the era of Mel Brooks is far from over, and that the people who claim "you couldn't make (insert offensive comedy here) today," are entirely wrong. This movie doesn't shy away from any of its material, and still manages to still be both irreverent and mindful of its topic. Taika Waititi is the true successor to Mel Brooks.
A truly wonderful film, paired with a great reaction from you. This film "did what it could", and in doing so I hope many others, for generations to come, will watch, learn, do what they can in the world, and dance.
That line from the Gestapo Agent made my laugh. It reminded my of a ditty from childhood. "Hitler, has only got one ball, Goring, has two but they are small, Himmler, has something similar, but Dr Goebbels has no balls, at all."
This is one of those films that when you see it, you make it your mission to get others to see it. A wonderful little miracle of a film. Children of Men is like that for me.
I feel that an entertaining part of this movie is the introduction scenes where Jojo is running through the streets and his enthusiasm for the day and for the Fuher. The song in the foreground, "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand" is one of two Beatles songs released in Germany at the beginning of their career, at the height of Beatlemania. Playing "Deine Hand" during the newsreel of the crowd's adoration of Hitler was supposed to parallel the insanity of Hitler's popularity with the German people with the same hysteria of "Beatlemania". The way it plays out with Jojo running through the streets is also kind of a homage to the beginning of the Beatle's first movie, "A Hard Days Night".
I was genuinely blown away to find that the recording was the actual Beatles. It was apparently a thing that bands did at one point, and it was an entire new recording, not just a new vocal track. Such a weird thing to think about, and it was one of the last times any band made it a priority, I believe.
The Beatles spent their first few years as a house band at a few clubs in Hamburg, Germany. They had what you would call a literal "residency" at the Indra club where they were given some beds in a storage room. they lived, ate, drank, took amphetamines, and played up to 5 shows a day at the club. Those two records were nostalgia for them but also fed a moderate fan base that existed from their time there. You can hear some of those Hamburg sessions that were recorded at the star club... Lots or raw music played a an amphetametic pace. th-cam.com/video/4JhKYwHyoYU/w-d-xo.html
I'm so glad you liked this movie. I was just as amazed the first time i watched it and I will fully admit that I lost it when I saw his mom's shoes at the gallows. Sharing in your reaction to this film was like having a kindred spirit.
"It reminded me of Hunt for the Wilder People, I wonder if its by the same director" Yes, Taika is amazing. I met him once, he is exactly like you would hope he would be.
23:00 Is the most gut wrenching moment I have ever experienced in a movie. The lead up to it by building the tension through the Gestapo search and the narrow escape, then the frivolity of a butterfly is perfectly done.
This movie had everything. I had recorded it months ago and put off watching it because it seemed like a goofy premise. I was so wrong. I cant remember the last time I felt so emotionally drained after watching a movie. The acting is fantastic, from Jojo to Rosie to Capt K. Everyone involved should be very proud of what they made, this movie instantly landed in my top 5 of all times.
22:51 That is the moment I have cried most in my life watching a movie. Don't know why it hit me so hard, but I was bawling by eyes out for 15 minutes. Had to pause the movie.
You know, I think she's already seen that one, before she started her channel, Here's a list of nearly everything Cassie has seen, even before she started her "First Time Watching" channel. Check out her Letterboxd page: letterboxd.com/pib1/films/by/name/
I remember seeing this in a theater the 1st week it came out. I already loved the movie and it's killer soundtrack. Then the last scene I'm sitting there as they 1st start to sway a bit and Bowie "Heroes" ("Helden" in this German version) started blaring. That's when it went from a cool little film to a fantastic one. One of my all-time favorite songs, and just one of the most brilliant ever. Plus, Arthur Lee and Tim Waits. Wunderbar!
" THERE ARE NO WEAK JEWS ! We are descended by men who have wrestled with Angels and fought with giants . We are chosen by God! " Gosh I loved that part ! As " You are chosen by a man who can't even grow a full moustache."
The german shepherds got me this time i forgot that moment in this movie, hillarious! Very good movie overall, both so sad and so funny at the same time.
Beautiful movie. I love Taika Waititi. He's the reason I even watched this movie. Please watch What We Do in the Shadows. The movie, not the show. Taika!!! Great reaction and I was so excited to watch. 😃❤️
Plus, he played Hitler. He didn't want to, being a Jew himself, but I think he was the only one in the cast who could walk that line between goofy and twisted.
The costumes for Captain K and Finkel at the end have a pink triangle. At the time this symbol was used to identify prisoners arrested for homosexuality. K had a deadly secret of its own which is why he helped Jojo keep his
I really need to rewatch this movie! I first saw it when my friend worked at Alamo Draft House and we both saw 3 movies back-to-back all within 8 hours or so; "Terminator: Dark Fate" followed by A24's "The Lighthouse" and finishing the binge with "Jojo Rabbit". I remember thinking they made an arthouse movie like Wes Anderson under the direction of Steven Spielberg filmed with the energy of Ridley Scott!
Fantastic reaction! I knew it would be and it was everything I hoped for. Jojo Rabbit was my favorite movie of 2019. And yes, Taika Waititi directed "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" as well. He has a unique way of mixing humor and heart and just shoving you through a gauntlet of emotions. I love when movies make me feel something and this one has all the feels. ❤️
That feeling you had at the end? I believe that feeling is the realisation that something you have just experienced has made you a better person, at the very least, made this weary world a little brighter. Because this film exists, I experienced, for the first time in a long time, the sensation that we can reach those better angels, and we aren't going backwards. We can't go backwards! For Jojo!
Thank you for watching this absolute gem of a movie, great reaction! If you want to watch more Sam Rockwell, please watch Moon - a brilliant Sci-Fi movie by Duncan Jones!
Have you watched “Life is Beautiful?” It’s in Italian with subtitles, so it might be difficult to edit, but if you’re able…it’s an amazing movie I am pretty sure it’s based on a true story.
You know, I think she's already seen that one, before she started her channel, Here's a list of nearly everything Cassie has seen, even before she started her "First Time Watching" channel. Check out her Letterboxd page: letterboxd.com/pib1/films/by/name/
The pool scene is extra funny to me because whenever I talked with war veterans, they spesificly mentioned how german soldiers weren't routinelly taught to swim causing a lot of problems if their boats sank or capsized.
Something to note....As much as everyone loved the script when it was being shopped around. Nobody wanted to actually green light it! It wasn't til after Thor: Ragnarock was released that an exec. at Fox told Taika that they'd make it under 2 conditions... 1) they'd distribute it under their "low budget/indie label Fox Searchlight and 2) That Taika would have to play Hitler. He knew what he needed the most out of how the character was to be portrayed and the other reason was everyone they'd discussed playing the role turned it down because they were afraid that it would be damaging to their career. That's it. Everyone got paid scale....It was pretty much treated as a write off that made back around 5 times it's budget. This film should be used as a model that you don't need to dump a ton of money into something as long as you have a great script and a talented cast & crew.
Hey Cassie! This is such a great and well written story! I actually told my mom and my stepfather to watch this and they watched it and my mom didn't like it. I didn't understand why I thought this movie was great. Anyways loved your reaction and I knew you were gonna get really sad when you saw that she was hung. You know what's crazy is you were talking about Hitler being crazy for his ideas and everything. I can't believe in this day and age we still have people like Hitler cough cough Putin around. Semper fi and Slava Ukraini!
I watched this movie after seeing your reaction. For me, this movie is in my top 10. So many elements go into making JO JO RABBIT, it truly is a new classic.
been waiting for this review forever. after seeing the movie once in the theater, after the shoe moment...I new I could never see this movie again for the first time. but sharing this reaction made that possible. this movie is a masterwork and I appreciate the chance to relive its emotion
Hi Cassie, thanks for all the great reactions, love your channel. As you may already know, Sam Rockwell in this one. I really like his work. I am at it again with the request of Galaxy Quest. He's really funny in this film. I've made this suggestion before and don't want to sound like a broken record, but I think you and maybe Carly would really enjoy it.
This is one of my all-time favorite films and watching reactions to it are my favorite reactor videos. And yours beats them all, great great sincere reaction, as always, to a brilliant film. Thank you for sharing.
"it reminded me of Hunt for the Wilderpeople. I wonder if it's done by the same people." Yes, Taika Waititi directed both of those movies and yes he was also Korg in Thor Ragnarok.
One thing easy to miss in this movie is the scene when the Gestapo shows up to investigate the home. The reason they are there is because they just hanged his mother and they are looking for evidence of other people involved. Sam Rockwell's character also knows she's dead so he races to the house on the bicycle to save him which is why he was aware of enough of the situation to save Elsa and why he tells Elsa to look after her brother.
Yes I never saw it first time through. It was her bike he came to the house on. So he definitely knew before he got there.
I'd like to say he's my favourite character but everyone does such a great job that each deserve the title in my mind.
@@dneill8493 it was not her bike, her bike is a woman's bike (with a low frame), his is a man's bike (with a high frame), very different frames... also almost all else is different. This is a wrong fan theory, that has been debunked numerous times, and apparently, though i have not seen this interview myself, has also been called wrong by Waititi himself. But you just have to google search or rewatch the scenes and realize those are two fundamentally different bicycles.
but I agree, Sam Rockwell is my favourite character too
@@Bunny_AoifeI thought it was her bike the 2nd time I saw it so when I saw people discussing it on these reaction channels I assumed it was true. I'll have a look. I've never freezed the shot so Ive probably just convinced myself I'm seeing her bike in that short glimpse.
Same way I guess that I know there are only 3 Indiana Jones films, sometimes we see what we want to see. 🤣
@@Bunny_Aoife Sam Rockwell's character in this probably just beats out Guy in Galaxy Quest as my favourite role of his.
Jo Jo: "What did they do?"
Rosie: "What they could."
Rosie (as Papa Lion): "Take care of my Rosie. She's doing what she can."
Those lines and the repeated shots of Rosie's shoes foreshadow her death. It took me several watches to pick up on that. This is a very well-written, beautiful movie.
And then JoJos ending talk to himself in the mirror completes it perfectly. “Today, just do what you can.”
@@Topcat6103 That and him leaving with Elsa, stopping to tie her shoe, then using Rosie's line, "Is it dangerous?" "Extremely."
Scarlett got an Oscar nomination for this role. After watching it a couple more times I think a win for it was more than deserved
The Cigarettes and meat Unicorn are a symbol of how little JoJo knows about Hitler, because Hitler hated Cigs and was Vegetarian
No, its how much he believes the propaganda. So I guess alittle of both.
@@Strider91 not really because there would definitely NOT been any propaganda of Hitler being pro-smoking or meat, as he was also openly vegetarian and I’m not a hitler expert lol but I think I remember hearing he war fairly anti-smoking or something not just that he didn’t personally
@@frokghug This propaganda is true, but the Brownshirts (SA) were nearly the only ones allowed to sell cigarettes. It's how they funded much of their cause. They threatened, killed and passed laws against all other sellers because they claimed that tobacco was a Jewish business. The average German spent one-tenth of his take home pay on cigarettes and the sales made up eight percent of Nazi Germany's state revenue. I am a historian. You don't read those facts in regular history books.
oh wow, that makes perfect sense!
@@joelwillems4081 Oh that’s interesting! Thank you for the insight! I love learning things that aren’t often discussed. Though that would just further support that he doesn’t know who Hitler is, not necessarily his blind following of propaganda. Although if the brown shirts were selling the cigarettes, I could see how a little boy would connect that, in their head, to Hitler being a smoker.
"Makes fun of it without making light of it." That's such a great way of putting it.
It's like the underlying thing that is very real even now where in the film everyone in the town is "happy" but it's because they know everything is going to crap so they try to continue on and pretend everything is fine.
Sam Rockwell's smile as he gets dragged away gets me every time 😢
People talk about toxic masculinity a lot, but Sam Rockwell’s character is a perfect example of the opposite. Smiling while he’s dragged away, knowing that he saved Jojo’s life is just such an uplifting, emotional end for his character
@@CommandoRicki love that they made his character gay too. just so many really thoughtful decisions in how these characters were created
@@TheFreshTrumpet On that, the final hoorah of him just firing at nothing, wearing his colourful frock, just his way of finally living true knowing it would be his last chance
Oh Cassie, my heart plummeted when you said 'cute shoes'. Thanks for the thoughtful and caring reaction to this movie. This movie is on my 'must watch' list of films!
Yeah those shots hit different on the rewatch. Good filmmaking.
Yeah, there was a particular attention to her shoes, for what turn out to be obvious reasons. Very clever.
Came down to post the same thing about the "cute shoes" comment.
a tear ran down my face at that moment knowing what was about to come.....
Same here. Such a tough scene
21:26 is the reveal that Captain K knew Elsa was Jewish; by telling her to get a new photo because she looked like a ghost meant he knew Inge was dead and Elsa was hiding as her, and to improve the illusion she should try to get some better/more recent photo ID
Excellent movie, best line: "What did they do?" "What they could."
And Jojo's mum dressed up as his dad "she's doing what she can"
And at the end when he’s about to set Elsa free, he looks in the mirror and tells himself, “Just do what you can.”
I'll never forget the shoes scene. Brilliant directing.
it is. they kept showing her standing above jojo (the park and the pool scenes), and i actually first thought she was already dead. Even thinking that there was meaning in the continued shots didn't prepare me for what it was actually preparing me for. making sure you knew her shoes, and making sure you knew he did too.
3 things: Yes, sadly that footage at the beginning was indeed real. Hitler developed a serious cult like following from roughly 30 some percent of the German population that honestly saw him exactly as Jojo does (like some sort of hero). Second: camps like that one Jojo went to were in fact not only real but common place. It was all part of the indoctrination process. And finally, and rather tragically. These camps were actually so effective that on D day when the allies stormed the beaches at Normandy many cleaned out trenches and bunkers only to find they had killed young kids who clung to their Hitler youth knifes like holy relics. You might remember when you watched saving private Ryan on of the characters took a knife off a dead German. . . . .it was a Hitler Youth knife. . . . .
EDIT: something most people miss in this is Captain Ks uniform he made for himself. He covered it with upside down Pink triangles. The Nazis used these like the stars of David but for homosexuals. They killed Gays, just like cripples and Jews. Throughout we see K and Finkle having these moments. . . . Turns out its because they were gay men, who were proud German soliders. . . . .then Hitler came. So in the end we see them drop the facade. And embrace who they are. It was a cool touch
I thought most everyone knew this stuff, at least some of it. So weird.
Can anyone think of a modern leader who basically has 30% of the population loving him even though his ideas are bat shit crazy?
Here's what is really crazy, thinking you need to post any piece of information here as if it wasn't already posted on patreon long before the video ever showed up here.
@@BedwetterCDN gee let me think . . . . 😏
@@chand911 some of its for her, most of its for the TH-cam fans that don't know. I'll take any opportunity to spread knowledge. Knowledge and wealth are two things that at at their greatest value when shared 🤔😁
I'm a Media Studies teacher and this is one of the films we study. There are SO many layers to this film. The repeated symbolism and framing of Rosie's shoes, often at Jojo's eye level on left of screen that foreshadows the discovery of her death, making that awful reveal easier to portray on screen without having to show who it is or what has happened to her. The line "doing what they can" is used often to signify the fight against the Nazi oppression, a line that Jojo adopts for himself as he repeats his mirror-monologue, showing his complete character arc. The way they shot Elsa's introduction like a horror film. Even Cassie thought the film was turning into a horror! The butterflies, the tiger, the theme of love, the way that Hitler is represented as how an obsessed 10 year old would fanatise about him, with childlike mannerisms, etc. Repeat viewing is a must!
1. Who doesn't love Sam Rockwell?
2. I'll always tear up a little watching this movie.
3. Watch it again Cassie - you'll love it even more.
Sam is a great actor. Hated his character in The Green Mile, but that is because Sam is such a great actor.
@@lbh002 Just don't give him a moon pie when he is in prison, all I'm saying.
They get you so relaxed then POW. A punch in the gut when he saw his mother hanging.
@@lbh002 Real talk.... Sam kills it in EVERYTHING. Dude is probably the single most underrated actor ever. Wish he would get more leads...
Sam Rockwell has an Oscar, and has been nominated a couple times, but he's somehow still one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. He's genuinely one of our best living actors. Dude has never turned in a subpar performance.
Sam Rockwell was running to the house with the bike. He knew the mom was caught and hanged. He was running to protect jojo.
And you can see his devastation and resignation when the Gestapo man says "Wait!" and he thinks he has to give him Inge's papers. He thinks they are all about to be exposed and ruined. Him, Jojo, the hidden Jew and even his boyfriend....
Incredibly, it was the kid's first acting role. And he knocked it out of the park.
Sam Rockwell's character represents the many Germans who had no choice but to serve or be killed. We often overlook that many German soldiers were conscripted and had no choice.
Colonel K and Finkel are also played to be lovers, K was never off the front lines for losing an eye, it was for being gay. He later incorporates a pink triangle in to his and Finkle's special uniform, a sort of out and proud last stand
@@backtoearth1983 Captain K being injured is why he got sent back. Its unlikely that it was known that he was gay as I that case he wouldn't have been allowed to continue to serve and likely put into prison or camps. Him having pink triangles on his uniform is, imo part of a last act of defiance against the regime he was fighting for, in an unwinnable situation by coming out. Captain K strikes me as a soldier through and through, a patriot to his country, but left to fight for a regime that doesn't mesh with his ideals. A subtle part of that is his behaviour at the book burning, he has to go along with it, but unlike the others, isn't happy about it. He also may have been close to Jojos mother, maybe even both knowing each others mutual secrets and keeping them, including knowing Inge was dead but knowing Rosie was giving the girl shelter, so went along and aided the falsehood, to protect primarily Jojo but also Elsa, because of personal connections and loyalties but also kmowinf that he and Elsa are in the same boat, they both belong to groups fhe nazis were actively persecuting.
@@RayvenQ K's and Rosie's relationship isn't explained in the movie, but they had to have been really close. I believe K knew Inge, and he also knew she was dead. The way he positioned himself to intercept the papers Elsa presented to the Gestapo was to shield her from further questioning. He also knew about Rosie's activities in the resistance and probably even that she was hiding a Jew, as evidenced by his final speech and the fact he rushed to Rosie's house after she was hanged. Rosie wouldn't have come out with it to someone she didn't know extremely well. They must have been close confidants, and that makes me think they were either related in some way (cousins?) or childhood friends.
Mixed on this one. There buts you'll hate and some you'll love
It was very popularized by captain America, but there is a common philosophy that the first country the Nazis invaded was Germany. I feel like the lions share of Germans knew it was wrong but feared for their own lives.
I saw this in the cinema and the moment I saw Jojo’s mother’s shoes hanging was the most impactful and heartbreaking moment I’ve ever experienced. I let out a quite loud cry and basically couldn’t stop sobbing !!…Kind of embarrassing for a middle aged man in a crowded cinema! 😭
The way it lulls you with the beauty of an innocent child following a butterfly straight to the horror of that child losing his mother… I’ll never forget that moment.
same
No shame, man, I've seen it several times and I've got the sniffles from tears now. It's so impactful, and the symbolism used is just ... oof. It's a good movie.
Incredibly impactful. The use of the butterfly also strongly references the final sequence of the 1930 anti-war masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front.
One of the most effective moments in one of the best movies I've ever seen. Same boat. My girlfriend's best friend clowned me mercilessly about it for months (in good fun. She was my buddy, too, by then, and was just messing with me. Really she thought it fine, and it was just an excuse to throw me a hard time.)
It's so hard to describe because it is so skilfully and seamlessly all over the place. Dead serious and truly tragic. Inspiring, hilarious, irreverent, poignant, just plain silly. You'll get a kick out of child soldiers, become more sympathetic to and more abhorrently disgusted by the h--t in two wildy different ways. It is a freaking roller coaster of a film.
I've taken, when trying to show it to others, to describing it as actually delivering on Wayne's World's joke tagline of, "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl."
Just might be my favorite movie of all time, and I ain't even near 20 anymore.
Such tears can only come from a good heart
So as you probably already figured out, the guy who played Hitler was also the director, and yes, he did also direct Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
And he played Korg (the rock guy) in Thor: Ragnarok, *and* he directed that too.
And wrote both. Check out What we do in the shadows as well
Taika’s father was of Maori ancestry, his mother is of Russian Jewish ancestry. He felt there was no greater insult to Hitler than to have him be played by a Jewish person of color.
And Taika was also directing while sometimes still in his full Hitler make-up.
i'm a 39 year old 12 year army vet sent to iraq and i cried when i saw the shoes
Thanks for your service.
@@Samminish oof. like i appreciate the sentiment but honestly it's the weirdest thing for a vet to hear. i only meant for it to give context as someone who saw weird shit go down. like i'm not a kindergarten teacher who eats paste and aligns their chakras.
also the funniest shit is to say "thank you for your service" to a coastie haha
Do you understand that that's a spoiler?
@@MarkMcLT "the shoes" is a spoiler? do you understand that she has already reacted to this movie and it is a cut-down version of the patreon fuill reaction? if someone hasn't already seen this movie, then the whole video is a spoiler. what are you talking about?
@@drone6675 the coastie thing. I'm fucking dying. Even tho you're a pog. Semper Fi. Brother. We joke but when the fan gets hit. We are all together. E5 marine. Dd214 retired against my will. Lol
I consider this film to be pure genius. The brilliance and care required to balance the humor, beauty, darkness, and tragedy… essentially it is perfection. I had to go back and immediately watch it a second time.
Absolute masterpiece of a movie. So many emotions. Entire cast was incredible.
When you said "cute shoes", it hurt to know what those shoes end up revealing later on.
Also, the important part with Waititi's Hitler is that we're getting exactly what a 10 year old would think that Hitler would be. He's a happy, goofball friend who is Jojo's hero. The ending when Jojo becomes disillusioned and finally realizes what Hitler is, that's the moment when he's now cruel to him and is no longer his friend. Out the window he goes.
My favorite moment in the film was when Taika asks "What are you burning?" and JoJo says "She can't hear you." and so he yells "What Are You BURNING?" Sam was great in this, he was self sacrificing. I think his mother might have been hanged already when they came to search her house. Sams friend was "Reek" from Game Of Thrones. "NO STABBING!"
she definitely was already dead. that's why they were there and why sam's character knew to show up to JoJo's house :(
IMO this film should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the year. Its wonderfully shot, has a great story and performances, and its an emotional roller coaster ride. Im glad you like it Cassie. See ya on the next vid.
Agreed. Parasite is a good film but it's not better than Jo Jo Rabbit.
The Hitler character was not only there to be Hitler, but to be Jo Jo's inner voice. Think when Jo Jo asks him if he thinks he is ugly and Taika doesn't even hesitate with his 'yes' ... It was Jo Jo saying that to himself. So crazy good!
I was hoping you would do this movie. Thank you.
He was also ment to be a representation of how Jojo saw Hitler. You will also notice that as Jojo becomes more grounded in reality, he starts to see his own Hitler differently
@HappyLittleAccidentsWithAvery Also, just before that, he tells Elsa that Jews like ugly things. I always thought that was him "testing the water".
I didn't even realize that was Taika! I kept thinking the whole movie..."I know that face...."
And toward the beginning, Hitler said Jojo looked good, then it shifted to him thinking he was ugly. That tonal shift from when Hitler was switching from an idealized character to someone who couldn't brainwash him anymore was beautifully subtle throughout. Love this movie!
I've watched this movie so many times, and every reaction that I've been able to find too. I love it so much - the beauty, the message, the digestibility, the unique perspective of a brainwashed child, and acknowledging the brave Germans who quietly did their best to fight a regime that had taken over their neighbourhoods, families and lives.
Over several watches, I picked up these repeating themes: 'They did what they could' (Rosie about the hanged people; 'Dad' about Rosie, Jojo in the mirror); Rosie's rocking shoes at eye level (swimming pool, bicycle walk); dancing (Rosie walking in late at night; Rosie and Jojo in the lounge, Rosie on the bicycle walk, Jojo and Elsa at the end); Rabbit (People calling Jojo 'kid' in a german accent sounds like kitt which is a baby rabbit, rabbit killed at camp, rabbit surviving the winter snow); homosexuality (Captain K feeding the other guy cake; making up after the german shepherd incident; rocking their designed battle costumes together in the slow motion sequence); rock star music (Beatles in german in start credits; David Bowie in german in end credits). It's just a deliberately and beautifully designed film.
I am so glade you did this movie. My 14 year old son and 15 year old daughter made me purchase and watch this movie last year. I was not too excited. I was into WW2 history for a time and was interested in the psychology large groups of people. Plus My son and I are huge movie nuts. Anyways I watched this movie and was absolutely amazed by the nuance and detail of writing and directing. This movie is easily my top five over all best movie choices. Just as an example: The shoes were a major detail and you even made a comment about how nice they were when the mother was dancing on that concrete wall. As soon as you said that I knew you were going to have super strong response, when you see them in the air. The casting is absolutely perfect. The casting director needs an award, who ever that my be. I think this is one of Scarlet Johansson best performances, and same with Sam Rockwell, other than his roll in the Great Mile. This movie incapsulated everything I was trying to find. It’s absolutely a work of art.
Comedy + WWII + The Holocaust is a very hard combination to film well, yet, somehow Taika nailed it for Jojo Rabbit. The only other movie I can think of that has successfully done comedy while not downplaying the atrocities and horror of the Third Reich was "Life Is Beautiful, 1997" (or La vita è bella in the original Italian title). It's most definitely worth a watch!
Yep I think that is his biggest accomplishment. Been tons of war movies and even been comedy maybe 2 of ww2 and countless dramas of the horror of ww2. But this was comedy took in direction that I personally haven't heard of before without the just killing nazi is funny to people attitude.
Stalag 17. Very funny in spots that were supposed to be funny. But also deadly serious in the stakes. But balancing comedy & drama without undercutting either was something Billy Wilder did better than just about anyone. I agree that there are strong resemblances in this movie to Life Is Beautiful.
There have been some pretty great and important movies before that combined these things brilliantly. Namely "To Be Or Not To Be" by Ernst Lubitsch (who was a Jewish emigrant from Germany living in the US) from 1942 and "The Great Dictator" by Charlie Chaplin from 1940. Imagine what it meant that both of these movies were made when WWII was still going and Hitler still alive. Both movies are highly recommended and in my eyes mandatory to watch.
Did anyone else notice the weird shuffling walk that Rosie does in one scene is reminiscent of the father saving his son in Life Is Beautiful?
"Is this real footage?" Yes, yes it is. You kind of nailed it. He was more or less star status when he was in control. The footage is mind blowing.
There was a reason that Time Magazine named him person of the year... twice. The Germans never even elected him though. He was appointed as second in command, did away with his superior and then forced a vote to become dictator. Fear and ignorance, those were his weapons, like Putin.
The German people actually regarded him as a rockstar at the time.
Which explains why he could charm the women to bear 'his children' so he would have an enormous army.
German mothers were awarded medals for having three or more children.
So in 1933 Hitler came to power.
And in 1945, the first batch of Hitler kids was ready to hit the battle streets of Berlin.
Became an instant top 5 for me after seeing this movie. Everything was Top Notch: Plot, Acting, Directing, Writing, Sets, Costumes, Character Development... This one is an instant classic for me. Great Reaction!
I just made the same comment. Top 5 for me to.
It's in my Top Ten. But I like lots of movies. It should have won Best Picture over Parasite.
@@clarkbarrett6274 I like it better than parasite but parasite was a masterpiece and rightfully deserved best picture
This is probably the best film I've seen in the last 10 years! I'm stunned that is got made and thankful that it was!
My father served in Patton's 3rd Army 42-45 (687th FAB)....Thru Normandy, the battle of the hedgerows, Battle of the Bulge... One of his last duties in Europe was helping "clean up" Buchenwald concentration camp in the spring of 45....He brought back pictures he took there....
He also told the story of "Hitler Youth".....Toward the end of the war they captured a few Hitler youth and the American C.O. had been in a German POW camp and HATED Germans. So he put the youth against a chalk board with their noses in a chalk ring and would beat them with a riding crop if they stepped down.....Dad volunteered to watch the kids while the CO. could go eat, drink, etc....Dad would let the kids sit down every time the CO left....Dad just saw KIDS....Misguided kids..... Just FYI....Captain K and his "assistant" are Gay.....The scene with them in their new fancy uniforms if you look closely, you will see inverted pink triangles ... Inverted pink triangles were sewn onto Nazi camp uniforms to signify homosexuals,,,,,
A family friend also served in Patton's army. In the headquarters. He wrote a book entitled, "The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army". He also took photos of Buchenwald and they are in the book. Eisenhower ordered every allied soldier within 100 miles to visit the camps. He knew the world would not want to believe it and so he wanted as many eyewitnesses as possible. Most men afterwards were unable to tell others what they saw there.
@@joelwillems4081 My mother burned those pictures long ago because dad would sometimes just take them out and look at them.......They left a giant scar....
Cool. Dear old dad was assigned to a heavy ordnance battalion attached to 3rd Army HQ. Lots of interesting stories from D+10 to the end.
I agree with you on Scarlett Johansson. This is her best performance. I thought she was fantastic as JoJo mother, she brought a real sweetness to the role while portraying a truly heroic person. Really well done.
Definitely some of her best performances.
I also love her in Marriage Story, Lost in Translation and Under the Skin.
She is really great drama actress.
"A movie is a machine that creates empathy." - Roger Ebert, film critic. (I think.)
I saw this in the theatre. When that scene…everyone here knows…happened, we all let out a collective gasp. This movie makes you laugh, cry, shout and leaves you heartbroken all in one
I been waiting on this one. The whole mood of the film changed. Iv studied this war for 13 years.
It actually takes things comically insane. From the point of view of a child seeing and trying in his own mind to make sense of what he's seeing. It's brilliant.
when Capitan K tells him to go take care of his sister, that hit me harder than I expected the first time I saw this movie.
Probably because he knew that his last and only act to help jojo in that moment was to turn his back on jojo.
"What did they do?" "What they could". An underrated movie line of all time.
I just love that sams character comes to protect jojo after his moms killed
I absolutely bawl my eyes out every time I see this movie, and even along with every reaction I watch. So I'm a wreck right now, thanks for sharing 😭
I have seen this movie 6 times and have seen multiple reactions to it...still when he said "Jojo Betlzer 10 and a half years old...just do what you can" I got emotional again. It never hit me before that this went back to when he asked his mom what the hanged collaborators had done and she responded "what they could". This movie is insanely good and really makes you feel every single emotion
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His "father" also says "She's doing what she can." at 13:07.
@@mike-mz6yz Just as a small point for accuracy, but I think it's important that the real historic people depicted there are correctly recognised: the people hanged in the town square were 'resistance', the very opposite of 'collaborators'.
"Is this part real? Did everybody have papers?"
Oh mercy, how soon people forget! "Vhere are your paperz?" was once a cliche line for Nazis in Second World War movies. It's terrific that you've seen Private Ryan, Best Years, and Schindler, but you owe it to yourself to take in Judgment at Nuremberg, The Young Lions, and Downfall.
And then watch Julia!
In this film, Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo) gave one of the best child performances I have ever seen. Maybe even top 5. The whole cast is brilliant but pretty much the whole film is on his shoulders and he pulled it off beautifully. This film has one the the saddest scenes I've ever seen in a film (the butterfly/shoe reveal) and yet at the same time is, I think, one of the best and funniest comedies of the last decade. That's not easy to do but Taika Waititi did it. And ending with dancing to the German version of David Bowie's song Heroes (which was written about Berlin and recorded in Berlin) is absolute perfection.
Interesting side note: His brother Gilby played all the clones.
I knew you'd love this movie! surprised there weren't more tears.... that one part gets me every time. you know the one
One of my all time favorite movies! I've watched it over and over again, at least 7 times. I tell everyone I see that they have to watch it. It was so great to see your reaction. Keep up the good work!
I loved this movie the first time I watched it but I think I love it even more on every subsequent viewing. As you said, it's such a fine line but done perfectly. I think it can be easy to forget that not every German during WWII was evil. This movie is a nice tribute to all those that "did what they could."
This movie literally makes you feel every emotion and it’s crazy lol. But yes! Jojo and his little friend are the cutest friends ever 🤣 “I’m gonna go home to my mother. I need a cuddle.” 🥺
This Film is a masterpiece! Possibly a lot of people don’t see that yet but I think it will become a timeless classic.
Thanks!
Ends with the song “Heroes” like one of your other favs, “The Replacements”
The dialogue in this movie is brilliant
I was excited to watch your reaction to this, because I really expected you to enjoy it. Fantastic movie in so many ways. There's even a couple of extra humorous bits for those that speak German. It is certainly worth a second and third viewing. Thanks for reminding us of why we love movies. (btw. this is my alias. I am the family friend you met in Costco a few months back.)
I agree on the rewatch ability that the movie has! YOU met her at COSTCO?! lol!
I would argue that Jojo Rabbit is one of the best films ever made. It perfectly crafts a comedy around a touchy subject, and when you're not laughing your guts out, you're balling your eyes and reaching for tissues. When the movie is finally over, you're left literally speechless, as in you don't even know how to describe what you just watched.
Been waiting for you to watch this one. Glad you liked it
This movie is powerful proof that the era of Mel Brooks is far from over, and that the people who claim "you couldn't make (insert offensive comedy here) today," are entirely wrong.
This movie doesn't shy away from any of its material, and still manages to still be both irreverent and mindful of its topic.
Taika Waititi is the true successor to Mel Brooks.
A truly wonderful film, paired with a great reaction from you.
This film "did what it could", and in doing so I hope many others, for generations to come, will watch, learn, do what they can in the world, and dance.
That line from the Gestapo Agent made my laugh. It reminded my of a ditty from childhood.
"Hitler, has only got one ball,
Goring, has two but they are small,
Himmler, has something similar,
but Dr Goebbels has no balls, at all."
This is one of those films that when you see it, you make it your mission to get others to see it. A wonderful little miracle of a film.
Children of Men is like that for me.
I feel that an entertaining part of this movie is the introduction scenes where Jojo is running through the streets and his enthusiasm for the day and for the Fuher. The song in the foreground, "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand" is one of two Beatles songs released in Germany at the beginning of their career, at the height of Beatlemania.
Playing "Deine Hand" during the newsreel of the crowd's adoration of Hitler was supposed to parallel the insanity of Hitler's popularity with the German people with the same hysteria of "Beatlemania". The way it plays out with Jojo running through the streets is also kind of a homage to the beginning of the Beatle's first movie, "A Hard Days Night".
I was genuinely blown away to find that the recording was the actual Beatles. It was apparently a thing that bands did at one point, and it was an entire new recording, not just a new vocal track. Such a weird thing to think about, and it was one of the last times any band made it a priority, I believe.
The Beatles spent their first few years as a house band at a few clubs in Hamburg, Germany. They had what you would call a literal "residency" at the Indra club where they were given some beds in a storage room. they lived, ate, drank, took amphetamines, and played up to 5 shows a day at the club. Those two records were nostalgia for them but also fed a moderate fan base that existed from their time there. You can hear some of those Hamburg sessions that were recorded at the star club... Lots or raw music played a an amphetametic pace. th-cam.com/video/4JhKYwHyoYU/w-d-xo.html
I'm so glad you liked this movie. I was just as amazed the first time i watched it and I will fully admit that I lost it when I saw his mom's shoes at the gallows. Sharing in your reaction to this film was like having a kindred spirit.
This movie became one of my favourite all time movies, I absolutely love the script! The two main young actors are so good👌(AMAZING CAST)
What an amazing movie - has everything. Can't watch that amazing dance at the end without tears. Heros in German -- just perfect.
"It reminded me of Hunt for the Wilder People, I wonder if its by the same director" Yes, Taika is amazing. I met him once, he is exactly like you would hope he would be.
This movie walks the line perfectly. Everything about it just great.
23:00 Is the most gut wrenching moment I have ever experienced in a movie.
The lead up to it by building the tension through the Gestapo search and the narrow escape, then the frivolity of a butterfly is perfectly done.
I absolutely love this movie. And I love seeing people react to it.
This movie had everything. I had recorded it months ago and put off watching it because it seemed like a goofy premise. I was so wrong. I cant remember the last time I felt so emotionally drained after watching a movie. The acting is fantastic, from Jojo to Rosie to Capt K.
Everyone involved should be very proud of what they made, this movie instantly landed in my top 5 of all times.
22:51 That is the moment I have cried most in my life watching a movie. Don't know why it hit me so hard, but I was bawling by eyes out for 15 minutes. Had to pause the movie.
Low key the funniest quote is - "Our only friends left are the Japanese. And just between you and me, they don't look very Aryan"
Been waiting for ages for you to watch this... such powerful emotions and so cleverly done. 3 billboards next, please...please!
You know, I think she's already seen that one, before she started her channel, Here's a list of nearly everything Cassie has seen, even before she started her "First Time Watching" channel. Check out her Letterboxd page: letterboxd.com/pib1/films/by/name/
I’m always impressed to see your post with the list of movies Cassie has seen. If I were to attempt the same…madness, madness!!!
I remember seeing this in a theater the 1st week it came out. I already loved the movie and it's killer soundtrack. Then the last scene I'm sitting there as they 1st start to sway a bit and Bowie "Heroes" ("Helden" in this German version) started blaring. That's when it went from a cool little film to a fantastic one. One of my all-time favorite songs, and just one of the most brilliant ever. Plus, Arthur Lee and Tim Waits. Wunderbar!
Taika Waititi is such a great director. His previous films, Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople are definitely worth seeing as well
Did you listen to her talk during the video? Because she said out loud that she'd seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
@@jessicaross7288 Typed in the comment before i watched the video. oopsie
" THERE ARE NO WEAK JEWS ! We are descended by men who have wrestled with Angels and fought with giants . We are chosen by God! " Gosh I loved that part ! As " You are chosen by a man who can't even grow a full moustache."
Thomasin McKenzie is phenomenal in this
I stay in tears watching this movie. When she was dancing and you said “cute shoes” I broke down.
We all NEED to see you react to Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. You will have ALL the emotions. Would be a perfect duo movie with your sister.
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The german shepherds got me this time i forgot that moment in this movie, hillarious! Very good movie overall, both so sad and so funny at the same time.
Beautiful movie. I love Taika Waititi. He's the reason I even watched this movie. Please watch What We Do in the Shadows. The movie, not the show. Taika!!! Great reaction and I was so excited to watch. 😃❤️
“THEY WOULDN’T”
I have some unpleasant news to deliver about Nazis…
I love this movie so much. It always makes me cry no matter how many times I watch it or see a reaction. Such an amazing experience.
Apparently Mel brooks praised this movie as a great movie and some what reminiscent of his film the producers
Perfect reaction for a perfect movie. Taika Waititi is a genius. And yes, he was the director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Plus, he played Hitler. He didn't want to, being a Jew himself, but I think he was the only one in the cast who could walk that line between goofy and twisted.
Cassie should watch Boy.
The costumes for Captain K and Finkel at the end have a pink triangle. At the time this symbol was used to identify prisoners arrested for homosexuality.
K had a deadly secret of its own which is why he helped Jojo keep his
IMO, the best movie of the past 10 years.
I really need to rewatch this movie! I first saw it when my friend worked at Alamo Draft House and we both saw 3 movies back-to-back all within 8 hours or so; "Terminator: Dark Fate" followed by A24's "The Lighthouse" and finishing the binge with "Jojo Rabbit". I remember thinking they made an arthouse movie like Wes Anderson under the direction of Steven Spielberg filmed with the energy of Ridley Scott!
I'd say this is by far Taika Waititi's best movie. His second best, at least imho, is What We Do In The Shadows, a absolute hilarious Movie.
Fantastic reaction! I knew it would be and it was everything I hoped for. Jojo Rabbit was my favorite movie of 2019. And yes, Taika Waititi directed "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" as well. He has a unique way of mixing humor and heart and just shoving you through a gauntlet of emotions. I love when movies make me feel something and this one has all the feels. ❤️
Once I heard the Beatles’ German version of “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, I just *knew* this would be good!
That feeling you had at the end? I believe that feeling is the realisation that something you have just experienced has made you a better person, at the very least, made this weary world a little brighter. Because this film exists, I experienced, for the first time in a long time, the sensation that we can reach those better angels, and we aren't going backwards. We can't go backwards! For Jojo!
Personally, my favorite Taika Waititi film is still "What We Do in the Shadows". The film, not the tv show.
“We’re werewolves, not swear-wolves.” 🤣🤣
@@Serenity113 😂
In my opinion, in a cast of great actors that did incredible work, Yorkie shined the brightest. Yorkie also grows up to be "Nick Frost"(just a theory)
Thank you for watching this absolute gem of a movie, great reaction!
If you want to watch more Sam Rockwell, please watch Moon - a brilliant Sci-Fi movie by Duncan Jones!
Have you watched “Life is Beautiful?” It’s in Italian with subtitles, so it might be difficult to edit, but if you’re able…it’s an amazing movie I am pretty sure it’s based on a true story.
You know, I think she's already seen that one, before she started her channel, Here's a list of nearly everything Cassie has seen, even before she started her "First Time Watching" channel. Check out her Letterboxd page: letterboxd.com/pib1/films/by/name/
This was a truly amazing movie. I'm so glad you reacted to it.
The pool scene is extra funny to me because whenever I talked with war veterans, they spesificly mentioned how german soldiers weren't routinelly taught to swim causing a lot of problems if their boats sank or capsized.
Something to note....As much as everyone loved the script when it was being shopped around. Nobody wanted to actually green light it! It wasn't til after Thor: Ragnarock was released that an exec. at Fox told Taika that they'd make it under 2 conditions... 1) they'd distribute it under their "low budget/indie label Fox Searchlight and 2) That Taika would have to play Hitler. He knew what he needed the most out of how the character was to be portrayed and the other reason was everyone they'd discussed playing the role turned it down because they were afraid that it would be damaging to their career. That's it. Everyone got paid scale....It was pretty much treated as a write off that made back around 5 times it's budget. This film should be used as a model that you don't need to dump a ton of money into something as long as you have a great script and a talented cast & crew.
Yes .... Hunt For The Wildepeople was directed by the same guy..... Taika Waititi. He also co-directed What We Do In The Shadows .... and Boy.
Hey Cassie! This is such a great and well written story! I actually told my mom and my stepfather to watch this and they watched it and my mom didn't like it. I didn't understand why I thought this movie was great. Anyways loved your reaction and I knew you were gonna get really sad when you saw that she was hung. You know what's crazy is you were talking about Hitler being crazy for his ideas and everything. I can't believe in this day and age we still have people like Hitler cough cough Putin around. Semper fi and Slava Ukraini!
Yes, Putin was the one celebrating Hunka in Canadian parliament with an ACTUAL Not see
@@cheebees huh?
pootler celebrates a ruzzofascist Ivan Ilyin, he's even relocate his ashes to Moscow from abroad@@cheebees
I watched this movie after seeing your reaction. For me, this movie is in my top 10. So many elements go into making JO JO RABBIT, it truly is a new classic.
This movie is superb, with so much sub-text and depth in all the characters. It swings emotions to all extremes.
been waiting for this review forever. after seeing the movie once in the theater, after the shoe moment...I new I could never see this movie again for the first time. but sharing this reaction made that possible. this movie is a masterwork and I appreciate the chance to relive its emotion
Hi Cassie, thanks for all the great reactions, love your channel. As you may already know, Sam Rockwell in this one. I really like his work. I am at it again with the request of Galaxy Quest. He's really funny in this film. I've made this suggestion before and don't want to sound like a broken record, but I think you and maybe Carly would really enjoy it.
Have you seen Moon? Rockwell's best performance in my opinion.
@@johnfriday5169 Yes that is excellent suggestion! That film had slipped my mind. Probably his best role. I second your recommendation
This is one of my all-time favorite films and watching reactions to it are my favorite reactor videos. And yours beats them all, great great sincere reaction, as always, to a brilliant film. Thank you for sharing.
The director Taika played Hitler. Incredibly complex film to pull off, genius actually.
"it reminded me of Hunt for the Wilderpeople. I wonder if it's done by the same people." Yes, Taika Waititi directed both of those movies and yes he was also Korg in Thor Ragnarok.
Which he also directed, of course!