the pink triangles on Cpt K and Freddie's uniforms where used by the Nazis to mark homosexuals the same way star of David was used for jews. They went out as their true selves. The last scene with Cap K he's holding Freddie's cape....
This and the Producers are some of the best responses to Nazism I have ever seen. Laugh at it. The Producers was mainly about laughing at it and making it absurd. This mixes laughter with deep tragedy. Love them both. Wonderful acting.
I saw this in the theater and I described it to my friends as "Amazing, heartbreaking, hilarious, heartbreaking, touching, heartbreaking, surprising, heartbreaking, brilliant, and heartbreaking." So glad to see your reaction to it. I was really taken by the whole film - the acting was amazing, the humor was spot on, and then the drama hits so hard. Thanks for watching this!
Captain K and his friend Finkel were both gay and would have been sent to a concentration camp if discovered. They were no nazis, but simple soldiers (they couldn't refuse) and they played along to stay alive, like so many people (there was a think called "Sippenhaft", which meant that if they caught one person doing something, they could arrest the entire family, too). That's why they had these flamboyant uniforms, at the end, with pink triangles, which gay inmates of concentration camps had to wear, like the yellow star for the Jews (there were other such symbols, like black triangles for political prisoners, among others). The Hitler Youth was mandatory, and the children would also have been brainwashed at school (teachers had to teach the desired propaganda about race etc.). Jojo would have been born in 1935, he wouldn't have known anything else, unlike people like his mother or K. who probably had very different lives before the arrival of the nazis.
Howdy from Texas. Actually the boy who played JoJo. Roman Griffith Davis, who's acting was impeccable. This was his very first professional acting role. What a great kid!
Like Schindler's List they will never give too much praise due to the source material. I remember Ralph Fiennes was so searingly real he should have won the Oscar but there is NO WAY he was going to get it.
Captain K and his partner were gay hence the pink v on their helmets in the last battle scene. The nazis made Jews wear the yellow star and guys a pink v. They would have been eliminated if the reich knew they were gay.
I especially loved it when JoJo said he had a girlfriend and Yorkie said excitedly "a girlfriend" even though he knew she was Jewish, they were so innocently happy even under those awful circumstances.
Y’all handled that moment so much better than anyone I have ever seen….. that’s the thing about this movie is that it is so outrageously funny that when you see his mom’s shoes it’s like the equivalent of an actual gut punch from your favorite person in the world…..
So this movie was inspired by a book called caging skies. It is like 95% different than the book. In fact Waititi only finished half the book before starting this script. I think it does an amazing job being an uncomfortable satire. Something that is needed because the reality is pretty uncomfortable. Yorkie is my spirit animal. : )
Factoid: At the end, when they dance. JoJo is wearing an out similar to ne David Bowie had. Both are doing dance moves Bowie used. To a Bowie song, Heroes. Love that lil tidbit in the end.
This is one where each watch you notice more. And sometimes watching other people watch it (react videos), they'll point out things. Like how Capitan K is bringing back Rosie's bike, which is the first hint she was caught and explains why the house is being searched. And the look on his face when he thinks Captain Deertz is going to look at the passport and see Elsa got the date of birth wrong. Or the pink triangles they included on Captian K and Freddy Finkel's uniform at the end. His growing disillusionment with the war and how he defected and started to help Rosie is hinted at, too
It's not Rosie's bike (her bike had a basket, and it would put him under suspicion if he showed up with her bike). But I think it's implied that he did know she was dead, that the gestapo would be searching her house, and he rushed there to help JoJo (and perhaps Elsa, who he may or may not have known about beforehand).
I got through most of this movie with only a few nasty throat lumps, but when I spotted the pink triangles, it all hit me at once and I was a mess! 😭 It’s going on the ‘need to ugly cry’ movie list for sure
Some technical info for you. German grenades were more geared towards concussive effect than shrapnel. They generated fewer and smaller sized pieces of shrapnel than allied grenades
@Craig Platel - Ah, thanks for that bit of info Craig! In my mind, I'd told myself that perhaps they were using practice grenades with less explosive power as a way to explain JoJo's minimal injury. Nice little tidbit, thanks again. 😊
@@previouslyachimp Well, actually the Stielhandgranate 24 contained ~ 160g of TNT (M2 hand grenades had less than half explosive material). It has been designed as a multi-purpose explosive rather than an anti-personal grenade. In reality that boy would have died due to internal organ damage when so close to the explosion.
@@zahgurim7838 Not necessarily. When I was in high school/college I had a friend whose father had been in the OSS (later the CIA) during the war, and I got to know him very well. He basically had a similar thing happen to him. He rounded a corner of a building at night and came face to face with a German soldier who had a stick grenade out with the cord in hand. They surprised each other, the German pulled the cord and dropped the grenade and took off running. It went off in front of him and put him in the hospital. (Told me he was in the hospital long enough to read "War and Peace".) He wore a full beard to cover the scars from that incident.
@@ksepton Well, no offense intended, but StHgr. 24 takes more than 4 seconds to detonate. So there was plenty of time for that guy to get some distance to the grenade. I highly doubt he was as close as depicted in the movie. And everything which is between you and the grenade weakens the effect of the explosion; it is mostly based on blast wave (as long as the Splitterhuelle is not attached). Again, it has not been designed to be anti-personal, a few meters of distance are enough to survive it. So I guess your friend's father was not only lucky, but smart enough to get out of the deadly radius. If that thing goes off less than 50 cm with no obstacle next to you - you are done.
I always assumed the grenades they used for training where very low yield (makes sense since by that time they had limited resources). Still stupid dangerous, but not as deadly as "real" ones. So that would explain why he got of relatively easy. Such a great movie, so much to love. Some of it pretty subtle (a bunch of which are with Hitler as a manifestation of a part of his mind) Or at 22:14 for a moment we see captain K his reaction, thinking he was caught protecting the girl. We also had already seen him bring Rosie's bike to the house, hinting something was wrong. Great reaction!
"Nazi Germany or 2023 US" hit me. As a German. The sane part of the world knows what is going on and we know it's anything but a-okay. We are deeply, DEEPLY concerned. Just want you to know that Also: This film, like so many of Taika's, is a fucking gem! This film, like all of Taika's, makes you cry, laugh, and then cry again within 5 minutes. And the crying could be for two different reasons as well. The book on wich he based the screenplay was much darker and didn't have the humour or the imaginary Hitler. I appreciate both. The author gave the film her explicit okay. 1) the father was either in the resistance as well, but somewhere abroad and got killed there/got killed abroad but was unwillingly recruited 2) everyone had to join the Hitler Youth, especially lateron. SS and other systems within the nazi government, you had to actively apply for (which is why it always pisses me off when people defend 90+ year old concentration guards who finally get judged. They weren't forced to do that. It's like saying "Oh, I became a Lieutnenant because someone forced me straight into the job" Training was involved and they checked your background, your loyalty to the party etc. My grandad was in 15 when the war ended and they made him dig trenches on the Western front when he was 14. Because he was in the Hitler Youth. 3) the last scenes, they literally did that, especially in the bigger cities. It was called the "Volkssturm" (people storm) They ALL knew that the Russians and Americans where there and there was NO way of winning, yet they sent out little kids and old people with sticks, if needs be, because Germany had barely any weapons left. Oh and in case you didn't pick up on it...the "major"..he was MAJORLY gay. with this other guy. that's why you saw the little pink pyramid on his cloth in the end. that's what they sewed on homosexuals in the camps. that's what they were killed for. I love the little nod and also that he helped JoJo and "the Jew" out because he knew, he so knew and he couldn't be arsed anymore. And in the end, he knew again. But before that, he fought alongside his boyfriend in their uniform. kinda openly. Like, yeah, they were still Nazis but the duality?! Great work! great reaction you two! Loved it!
I don't think Captain K or Finkel were Nazis in any ideological sense. He was a career soldier who liked soldiering and being a war hero, but between being gay and being a decent person, he had no allegiance to Hitler. It's a little ambiguous as to how involved he was in the resistance, but he's obviously close enough to Rosie that it seems likely he was actively trying to cover for her, and probably using his status as a heroic figure to avoid suspicion. And when JoJo asks him what to do if he sees a Jew, he tells JoJo that the SS will kill a lot of people in response. It's left ambiguous whether he's merely being cynical, or attempting to dissuade JoJo from turning in any Jews, but his cynical apathy towards Hitler's ideology and methods is consistent enough that I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt. And in the final battle, it's worth mentioning that his and Finkel's fighting is entirely performative. He knows this is the end for them, and he wants to go out in a blaze of fabulous, out and proud glory in his flashy uniform. But it doesn't seem like his intent is to be an effective fighter. He and Finkel are having one last joyous romp, guns pointed harmlessly skyward. This makes his final moments, still holding his presumed lover's cape, and performing one last truly selfless act, all the more heartbreaking.
U.S. here. We see it as well and are just as deeply concerned. I am amazed how many of my fellow citizens cannot see the path they are on. We have outside meddling going on which is not helping. Our freedom of speech is being used against us.
I think Merchant's character drops some hints as to what happened with Rosie getting caught and the dad. Out of all his creepy grins, there are two that stick out along with his tone as if he's telling an inside joke. JoJo: "She's very busy"- Deertz: "Is she?" (creepy smile and gloating, foreboding tone here) Then at the end of the 'visit'. Deertz: "That reminds me. We must get back. We left that guy hanging up...." (again with the smile and tone.) I'm pretty convinced these were clues to explain the scenarios more. JoJo's dad was in the resistance. He got caught and it outed him and Rosie. That 'visit' by the Gestapo wasn't just to gather evidence and leads. It was also to.. 'dispatch' the remaining family, JoJo. But Captain K and Finkel interrupted their plans. Thus the looming over him and trying to stare him down. K was basically leader of JoJo's 'troupe' (like nazi boy scouts) and had a perfectly legitimate reason for being there. Deertz wasn't suspicious. He was trying to intimidate K and get them to leave. K and Finkel saved JoJo's and Elsa's lives... literally. This also explains why they didn't care to take care of JoJo with his mother gone. JoJo is, however, and orphan.
I like how you'll _say_ "Nazi Germany or 2023 US" but won't say why. Then follow it with _such_ a cryptic "sane people know what's going on" but *still* won't refer to it directly. It's always easy to see in fiction or in others though, ain't it? Here we have a movie poking fun at how people follow things & people blindly, without understanding what they are & that this blindness allows for evil through following. We _see_ this. In fiction & in others. Now: go get your 'voluntary' jabs as ordered because even though making everyone get something that gives no individual protection makes zero sense, you don't want to be the Only One not blindly following do you? & make sure to also give anyone who chooses to not blindly follow any protection & allow those who enforce such regulations to force them to. & of course don't forget to retain the belief that it's for the good of everyone. & never refer to any of this _directly_ as being wrong or bad so as to never give any of the victims of this *current* blind following any possible protection. Make sure that those who berate them until they give in are free to do so, call _that_ sticking to your supposed principles of freedom, but do nothing to protect anyone else's. great tactics for ensuring this Never Changes.
An estimated 75 MILLION human beings killed in WW2 becasue of ONE man’s ideas and no one standing up to them in time,..what a horrible piece of history that we CANT LET REPEAT!! Our country is divided today and has a lot of citizens actually WANTING communism here in the US, I pray we don’t need any other 9/11 to bring us back together. When he ties his moms shoes, oh man it got me. As a Polish-American this movie hits hard. 💜
Very few Americans want what I suspect your conception of communism is. When you think of communism, presumably you are imagining a soviet authoritarian model, where a single party under an authoritarian dictatorship controls all information, operates with no accountability, and controls all resources. To be clear, I've never met a socialist in America who wants anything like this. American socialism is more about recognizing that unchecked capitalism is rife with its own human rights abuses and extreme wealth inequality that enables oligarchs to essentially buy favors from a government that is ostensibly supposed to regulate them for our protections. The purpose of Democratic Socialism is not to give the government control over people. It's to provide a guaranteed baseline for people via things like universal health coverage, food stamps, and housing, so that our default existence is not abject poverty. Because when people are threatened with abject poverty, they are very easy to exploit by wealthy businesspeople. And yes, accomplishing this would require increasing taxes on the wealthy. But since much of the wealth "earned" by the wealthy tends to come from extracting profits from other people's labor, and since the wealthy receive the largest benefits from government spending (through subsidies, building business empires that utilize public infrastructure, relying heavily on law enforcement and national defense forces), and since money really has diminishing returns on happiness after your first hundred million dollars, I don't think there's any ethical problem in taxing them higher. A billionaire taxed for half their wealth would still have wealth beyond practical measure. Can you honestly say that any of this sounds particularly unreasonable to you? Most reasonably modernized countries have already gone in this direction, and most of them are horrified to learn how resistant we are to it. The division comes in when people hear the word "socialism" and insists that the left wants to appoint a Stalinist regime. This is particularly ironic, given that the closest we've ever come to an attempt to turn America into a dictatorship was when Donald Trump tried to undermine a democratic election by riling an armed mob and sending them to take hostages at the Capitol. I think it's also ridiculous to imply that 9/11 brought us together. It's one of the most divisive events in our history. While virtually all of us can agree that it was a tragedy, our responses to it ranged from reflection about our place as a self-appointed global police force to a rabid frenzy of indiscriminate retaliation against anyone who may or may not have had anything to do with it. 9/11 was used as an excuse to invade Iraq (which had absolutely nothing to do with it), and invade Afghanistan (for harboring Al Qaida). Meanwhile, we remained strategic allies with Saudi Arabia (a country rife with horrible human rights abuses), despite being where the majority of the hijackers were from. And domestically, 9/11 triggered a deep-seated paranoia that was used to strip Americans of various rights to privacy, and ushered in an age of increased surveillance. Nothing that happened in the wake of 9/11 brought us together. The terrorists knew we would splinter in the wake of their attacks by giving power to the most fanatically right-wing islamophobes among us, and that's exactly what happened.
Seeing her feet when she's hanging, it just sucks the air out of the room. This movies one of my top ten for sure. I'm a huge mel brooks fan and even he said everyone needs to see this. I know they wouldn't approve it unless he played Hitler, no one else could do it.
A great film but hard to watch at times. Loved that Mom genuinely thought Russian troops might wear red capes when invading Germany (Red Army anyone) 😉😊🥰
I enjoyed this. Hope you guys keeping making these as I enjoy you both. Regarding the Hail Hitler thing...I think the fact they made it comedic is itself a reflection and deconstruction of how absured, laughable and ridiculous the whole Nazi iconography really is! I think back to Mel Brooks The Producers original film where he used the premise of a musical number of Hitler was just a slap in the face of how ridiculous and laughing at the face of Nazi ideology. Good job, I was going to join your patron as a member to do suggestions but I think that membership is closed. If you ever see them on here I would suggest a British TV show from the 90s called A Very British Coup as that is a excellent drama.
Another great Taika Waititi movie is What We Do in the Shadows. It's hilarious. They made a show about it but the movie is the best. I'm new to the channel. Great job guys.
I love this movie, but it also scares me because the fascism in this movie is alive and well in the US, particularly in places like Texas. Ratting out your neighbors to the government killed millions of Jews and sympathetic Germans, and now it's being used to force women, and trans kids and their families out of state like refugees. And now books about civil rights are being banned, and how citizens dress is being legislated. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Leave Texas if it doesn't suit your beliefs, they've the right to set the law that they vote for. Maybe that's why it has the fastest growing population in the USA. People have the right to they're belief whether you agree or not, same as you. What Great country America is. Many more people get murdered in Leftie cities than right, it's out of control as 27 of Top 30 Crime-Ridden Cities are Run by Democrats. But you go ahead and live in your fantasy land, anything is great there.
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the pink triangles on Cpt K and Freddie's uniforms where used by the Nazis to mark homosexuals the same way star of David was used for jews. They went out as their true selves. The last scene with Cap K he's holding Freddie's cape....
This and the Producers are some of the best responses to Nazism I have ever seen. Laugh at it. The Producers was mainly about laughing at it and making it absurd. This mixes laughter with deep tragedy. Love them both.
Wonderful acting.
Surprisingly this was the first time the boy that plays jojo has ever acted. I think I remember he played a tree for a play and that was it
Seriously?? Kid is skilled
I saw this in the theater and I described it to my friends as "Amazing, heartbreaking, hilarious, heartbreaking, touching, heartbreaking, surprising, heartbreaking, brilliant, and heartbreaking." So glad to see your reaction to it. I was really taken by the whole film - the acting was amazing, the humor was spot on, and then the drama hits so hard. Thanks for watching this!
Captain K and his friend Finkel were both gay and would have been sent to a concentration camp if discovered. They were no nazis, but simple soldiers (they couldn't refuse) and they played along to stay alive, like so many people (there was a think called "Sippenhaft", which meant that if they caught one person doing something, they could arrest the entire family, too). That's why they had these flamboyant uniforms, at the end, with pink triangles, which gay inmates of concentration camps had to wear, like the yellow star for the Jews (there were other such symbols, like black triangles for political prisoners, among others).
The Hitler Youth was mandatory, and the children would also have been brainwashed at school (teachers had to teach the desired propaganda about race etc.). Jojo would have been born in 1935, he wouldn't have known anything else, unlike people like his mother or K. who probably had very different lives before the arrival of the nazis.
Howdy from Texas.
Actually the boy who played JoJo. Roman Griffith Davis, who's acting was impeccable. This was his very first professional acting role. What a great kid!
It was nominated for 6 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Like Schindler's List they will never give too much praise due to the source material. I remember Ralph Fiennes was so searingly real he should have won the Oscar but there is NO WAY he was going to get it.
I love that a Jewish man played Hitler. There’s some poetic Justice in that.
Captain K and his partner were gay hence the pink v on their helmets in the last battle scene. The nazis made Jews wear the yellow star and guys a pink v. They would have been eliminated if the reich knew they were gay.
I especially loved it when JoJo said he had a girlfriend and Yorkie said excitedly "a girlfriend" even though he knew she was Jewish, they were so innocently happy even under those awful circumstances.
Every time I watch this,captain k is a hero.
Y’all handled that moment so much better than anyone I have ever seen….. that’s the thing about this movie is that it is so outrageously funny that when you see his mom’s shoes it’s like the equivalent of an actual gut punch from your favorite person in the world…..
The repeated “Hiel Hitlers” become absurd and funny… until Elsa has to do it, and it suddenly isn’t funny anymore.
So this movie was inspired by a book called caging skies. It is like 95% different than the book. In fact Waititi only finished half the book before starting this script. I think it does an amazing job being an uncomfortable satire. Something that is needed because the reality is pretty uncomfortable. Yorkie is my spirit animal. : )
Should have won the Oscar,
It actually did win one academy award. For best screen play.
@@brianwilson9206 best adapted screen play
Factoid: At the end, when they dance. JoJo is wearing an out similar to ne David Bowie had. Both are doing dance moves Bowie used. To a Bowie song, Heroes. Love that lil tidbit in the end.
This is one where each watch you notice more. And sometimes watching other people watch it (react videos), they'll point out things. Like how Capitan K is bringing back Rosie's bike, which is the first hint she was caught and explains why the house is being searched. And the look on his face when he thinks Captain Deertz is going to look at the passport and see Elsa got the date of birth wrong. Or the pink triangles they included on Captian K and Freddy Finkel's uniform at the end. His growing disillusionment with the war and how he defected and started to help Rosie is hinted at, too
It's not Rosie's bike (her bike had a basket, and it would put him under suspicion if he showed up with her bike). But I think it's implied that he did know she was dead, that the gestapo would be searching her house, and he rushed there to help JoJo (and perhaps Elsa, who he may or may not have known about beforehand).
Almost nobody picks up on the pink triangles. That was such a brilliant touch of detail
I got through most of this movie with only a few nasty throat lumps, but when I spotted the pink triangles, it all hit me at once and I was a mess! 😭 It’s going on the ‘need to ugly cry’ movie list for sure
I live how the humour really shows the ridiculousness and banality of the regime. It's extremely effective. Brilliant film.
I watched a German young woman review this film. Her grandad and grandma were in the Hitler youth, yes they had these camps
Cultured Bubble 🎉
Presumably. I'm sad that she seems to have stopped posting reactions. I always found her very empathetic and insightful.
This is one film that drags you from laughing to crying in the space of a few seconds, and you never know which it's going to be next.
Some technical info for you. German grenades were more geared towards concussive effect than shrapnel. They generated fewer and smaller sized pieces of shrapnel than allied grenades
@Craig Platel - Ah, thanks for that bit of info Craig! In my mind, I'd told myself that perhaps they were using practice grenades with less explosive power as a way to explain JoJo's minimal injury. Nice little tidbit, thanks again. 😊
@@previouslyachimp Well, actually the Stielhandgranate 24 contained ~ 160g of TNT (M2 hand grenades had less than half explosive material). It has been designed as a multi-purpose explosive rather than an anti-personal grenade.
In reality that boy would have died due to internal organ damage when so close to the explosion.
@@zahgurim7838 - Interesting, thanks, Zah. 🙂
@@zahgurim7838 Not necessarily. When I was in high school/college I had a friend whose father had been in the OSS (later the CIA) during the war, and I got to know him very well. He basically had a similar thing happen to him. He rounded a corner of a building at night and came face to face with a German soldier who had a stick grenade out with the cord in hand. They surprised each other, the German pulled the cord and dropped the grenade and took off running. It went off in front of him and put him in the hospital. (Told me he was in the hospital long enough to read "War and Peace".) He wore a full beard to cover the scars from that incident.
@@ksepton Well, no offense intended, but StHgr. 24 takes more than 4 seconds to detonate. So there was plenty of time for that guy to get some distance to the grenade. I highly doubt he was as close as depicted in the movie.
And everything which is between you and the grenade weakens the effect of the explosion; it is mostly based on blast wave (as long as the Splitterhuelle is not attached). Again, it has not been designed to be anti-personal, a few meters of distance are enough to survive it.
So I guess your friend's father was not only lucky, but smart enough to get out of the deadly radius.
If that thing goes off less than 50 cm with no obstacle next to you - you are done.
I always assumed the grenades they used for training where very low yield (makes sense since by that time they had limited resources). Still stupid dangerous, but not as deadly as "real" ones. So that would explain why he got of relatively easy.
Such a great movie, so much to love. Some of it pretty subtle (a bunch of which are with Hitler as a manifestation of a part of his mind) Or at 22:14 for a moment we see captain K his reaction, thinking he was caught protecting the girl. We also had already seen him bring Rosie's bike to the house, hinting something was wrong.
Great reaction!
It's not Rosie's bike, but it's hinted that he knew she was dead and rushed over.
"Nazi Germany or 2023 US" hit me. As a German.
The sane part of the world knows what is going on and we know it's anything but a-okay. We are deeply, DEEPLY concerned. Just want you to know that
Also: This film, like so many of Taika's, is a fucking gem!
This film, like all of Taika's, makes you cry, laugh, and then cry again within 5 minutes. And the crying could be for two different reasons as well.
The book on wich he based the screenplay was much darker and didn't have the humour or the imaginary Hitler. I appreciate both. The author gave the film her explicit okay.
1) the father was either in the resistance as well, but somewhere abroad and got killed there/got killed abroad but was unwillingly recruited
2) everyone had to join the Hitler Youth, especially lateron.
SS and other systems within the nazi government, you had to actively apply for (which is why it always pisses me off when people defend 90+ year old concentration guards who finally get judged. They weren't forced to do that. It's like saying "Oh, I became a Lieutnenant because someone forced me straight into the job" Training was involved and they checked your background, your loyalty to the party etc.
My grandad was in 15 when the war ended and they made him dig trenches on the Western front when he was 14. Because he was in the Hitler Youth.
3) the last scenes, they literally did that, especially in the bigger cities. It was called the "Volkssturm" (people storm)
They ALL knew that the Russians and Americans where there and there was NO way of winning, yet they sent out little kids and old people with sticks, if needs be, because Germany had barely any weapons left.
Oh and in case you didn't pick up on it...the "major"..he was MAJORLY gay. with this other guy. that's why you saw the little pink pyramid on his cloth in the end. that's what they sewed on homosexuals in the camps. that's what they were killed for. I love the little nod and also that he helped JoJo and "the Jew" out because he knew, he so knew and he couldn't be arsed anymore. And in the end, he knew again.
But before that, he fought alongside his boyfriend in their uniform. kinda openly.
Like, yeah, they were still Nazis but the duality?! Great work!
great reaction you two! Loved it!
I don't think Captain K or Finkel were Nazis in any ideological sense. He was a career soldier who liked soldiering and being a war hero, but between being gay and being a decent person, he had no allegiance to Hitler. It's a little ambiguous as to how involved he was in the resistance, but he's obviously close enough to Rosie that it seems likely he was actively trying to cover for her, and probably using his status as a heroic figure to avoid suspicion. And when JoJo asks him what to do if he sees a Jew, he tells JoJo that the SS will kill a lot of people in response. It's left ambiguous whether he's merely being cynical, or attempting to dissuade JoJo from turning in any Jews, but his cynical apathy towards Hitler's ideology and methods is consistent enough that I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt.
And in the final battle, it's worth mentioning that his and Finkel's fighting is entirely performative. He knows this is the end for them, and he wants to go out in a blaze of fabulous, out and proud glory in his flashy uniform. But it doesn't seem like his intent is to be an effective fighter. He and Finkel are having one last joyous romp, guns pointed harmlessly skyward.
This makes his final moments, still holding his presumed lover's cape, and performing one last truly selfless act, all the more heartbreaking.
U.S. here. We see it as well and are just as deeply concerned. I am amazed how many of my fellow citizens cannot see the path they are on. We have outside meddling going on which is not helping. Our freedom of speech is being used against us.
I think Merchant's character drops some hints as to what happened with Rosie getting caught and the dad. Out of all his creepy grins, there are two that stick out along with his tone as if he's telling an inside joke.
JoJo: "She's very busy"- Deertz: "Is she?" (creepy smile and gloating, foreboding tone here)
Then at the end of the 'visit'.
Deertz: "That reminds me. We must get back. We left that guy hanging up...." (again with the smile and tone.)
I'm pretty convinced these were clues to explain the scenarios more. JoJo's dad was in the resistance. He got caught and it outed him and Rosie.
That 'visit' by the Gestapo wasn't just to gather evidence and leads. It was also to.. 'dispatch' the remaining family, JoJo. But Captain K and Finkel interrupted their plans. Thus the looming over him and trying to stare him down. K was basically leader of JoJo's 'troupe' (like nazi boy scouts) and had a perfectly legitimate reason for being there. Deertz wasn't suspicious. He was trying to intimidate K and get them to leave. K and Finkel saved JoJo's and Elsa's lives... literally. This also explains why they didn't care to take care of JoJo with his mother gone.
JoJo is, however, and orphan.
I like how you'll _say_ "Nazi Germany or 2023 US" but won't say why. Then follow it with _such_ a cryptic "sane people know what's going on" but *still* won't refer to it directly.
It's always easy to see in fiction or in others though, ain't it? Here we have a movie poking fun at how people follow things & people blindly, without understanding what they are & that this blindness allows for evil through following. We _see_ this. In fiction & in others.
Now: go get your 'voluntary' jabs as ordered because even though making everyone get something that gives no individual protection makes zero sense, you don't want to be the Only One not blindly following do you?
& make sure to also give anyone who chooses to not blindly follow any protection & allow those who enforce such regulations to force them to. & of course don't forget to retain the belief that it's for the good of everyone.
& never refer to any of this _directly_ as being wrong or bad so as to never give any of the victims of this *current* blind following any possible protection. Make sure that those who berate them until they give in are free to do so, call _that_ sticking to your supposed principles of freedom, but do nothing to protect anyone else's.
great tactics for ensuring this Never Changes.
This is one of my very favorite movies. Thanks for the wonderful reaction!
An estimated 75 MILLION human beings killed in WW2 becasue of ONE man’s ideas and no one standing up to them in time,..what a horrible piece of history that we CANT LET REPEAT!! Our country is divided today and has a lot of citizens actually WANTING communism here in the US, I pray we don’t need any other 9/11 to bring us back together.
When he ties his moms shoes, oh man it got me. As a Polish-American this movie hits hard. 💜
Very few Americans want what I suspect your conception of communism is. When you think of communism, presumably you are imagining a soviet authoritarian model, where a single party under an authoritarian dictatorship controls all information, operates with no accountability, and controls all resources.
To be clear, I've never met a socialist in America who wants anything like this. American socialism is more about recognizing that unchecked capitalism is rife with its own human rights abuses and extreme wealth inequality that enables oligarchs to essentially buy favors from a government that is ostensibly supposed to regulate them for our protections. The purpose of Democratic Socialism is not to give the government control over people. It's to provide a guaranteed baseline for people via things like universal health coverage, food stamps, and housing, so that our default existence is not abject poverty. Because when people are threatened with abject poverty, they are very easy to exploit by wealthy businesspeople.
And yes, accomplishing this would require increasing taxes on the wealthy. But since much of the wealth "earned" by the wealthy tends to come from extracting profits from other people's labor, and since the wealthy receive the largest benefits from government spending (through subsidies, building business empires that utilize public infrastructure, relying heavily on law enforcement and national defense forces), and since money really has diminishing returns on happiness after your first hundred million dollars, I don't think there's any ethical problem in taxing them higher. A billionaire taxed for half their wealth would still have wealth beyond practical measure.
Can you honestly say that any of this sounds particularly unreasonable to you? Most reasonably modernized countries have already gone in this direction, and most of them are horrified to learn how resistant we are to it. The division comes in when people hear the word "socialism" and insists that the left wants to appoint a Stalinist regime. This is particularly ironic, given that the closest we've ever come to an attempt to turn America into a dictatorship was when Donald Trump tried to undermine a democratic election by riling an armed mob and sending them to take hostages at the Capitol.
I think it's also ridiculous to imply that 9/11 brought us together. It's one of the most divisive events in our history. While virtually all of us can agree that it was a tragedy, our responses to it ranged from reflection about our place as a self-appointed global police force to a rabid frenzy of indiscriminate retaliation against anyone who may or may not have had anything to do with it. 9/11 was used as an excuse to invade Iraq (which had absolutely nothing to do with it), and invade Afghanistan (for harboring Al Qaida). Meanwhile, we remained strategic allies with Saudi Arabia (a country rife with horrible human rights abuses), despite being where the majority of the hijackers were from. And domestically, 9/11 triggered a deep-seated paranoia that was used to strip Americans of various rights to privacy, and ushered in an age of increased surveillance.
Nothing that happened in the wake of 9/11 brought us together. The terrorists knew we would splinter in the wake of their attacks by giving power to the most fanatically right-wing islamophobes among us, and that's exactly what happened.
Not communism. They want racism and a dictator. He said said it on day one and you know he will not stop.
one of my favorite films ever!
Seeing her feet when she's hanging, it just sucks the air out of the room. This movies one of my top ten for sure. I'm a huge mel brooks fan and even he said everyone needs to see this. I know they wouldn't approve it unless he played Hitler, no one else could do it.
One of the best films in recent memory.
Famous war movies
Das Boot (1982)
Quiet Western Front
Stalingrad (1997)
How did yall completely miss Captain Ks story....
A great film but hard to watch at times. Loved that Mom genuinely thought Russian troops might wear red capes when invading Germany (Red Army anyone) 😉😊🥰
This movie won an academy award for best screen play.
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Best adapted screenplay.
This is such an important movie today.
I never thought I’d say that.
My 2nd favourite film from that year (Parasite is tough to compete with!)
Totally agree!!
Just about to watch…one of my faves, hope you loved it ❤
I enjoyed this.
Hope you guys keeping making these as I enjoy you both.
Regarding the Hail Hitler thing...I think the fact they made it comedic is itself a reflection and deconstruction of how absured, laughable and ridiculous the whole Nazi iconography really is! I think back to Mel Brooks The Producers original film where he used the premise of a musical number of Hitler was just a slap in the face of how ridiculous and laughing at the face of Nazi ideology.
Good job, I was going to join your patron as a member to do suggestions but I think that membership is closed. If you ever see them on here I would suggest a British TV show from the 90s called A Very British Coup as that is a excellent drama.
Another great Taika Waititi movie is What We Do in the Shadows. It's hilarious. They made a show about it but the movie is the best. I'm new to the channel. Great job guys.
The song at the end is Bowie singing in German
That grenade was a training grenade... not so powerful like a real one.
Nice 40k reference!
A Taika Waititi associated series that is great to watch is Reservation Dogs. Superb, different and I won't spoil you 🙂
It's terrible that they first think of Thor when referencing Taika.
Is it though? That's what the majority of people know him from
One of the best movies ever 😊
You're Canadian I take?
A masterpiece
I love this movie, but it also scares me because the fascism in this movie is alive and well in the US, particularly in places like Texas. Ratting out your neighbors to the government killed millions of Jews and sympathetic Germans, and now it's being used to force women, and trans kids and their families out of state like refugees. And now books about civil rights are being banned, and how citizens dress is being legislated. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Leave Texas if it doesn't suit your beliefs, they've the right to set the law that they vote for. Maybe that's why it has the fastest growing population in the USA. People have the right to they're belief whether you agree or not, same as you. What Great country America is. Many more people get murdered in Leftie cities than right, it's out of control as 27 of Top 30 Crime-Ridden Cities are Run by Democrats. But you go ahead and live in your fantasy land, anything is great there.
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It’s everywhere
Shut up
"Death to Israel, Death to Jews" is currently being vocalized by LEFTISTS on our college campuses, but use whatever "comparison" is convenient for you
One of the best h view ever. A comedy but not!!
SARDAR UDHAM (2021) is the best bollywood movie ever made (highly critically acclaimed).
IMDB 8.4. 94% ROTTEN TOMATOES
Mark my words you will not forget this movie.
It will break your stereotype regarding indian movies that they are only song and dance and fun .
It will change your top 10 movie list of all times.
One of the most important films ever made.
Very much grounded and realistic.
If you like artistic and mature Cinema , you should definitely checkout.
You'll be blown away in a weird way.
You'll experience the new dimension of Indian Cinema.
THANK YOU Brother.
the book burning is portland oregan 2020 us.
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That youth camp looks a lot like Florida