Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi smacks the Nazis around in Jojo Rabbit, an amusing and occasionally sharp satire.
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The Nazis have been the subject of screen satire going all the way back to their peak of power and aggression, as seen in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940) and Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942) ripping Hitler and his minions a new one in real time, even as the world was discovering the full extent of the horrors they inflicted were known. Both films are considered masterpieces now, but the latter in particular received its share of critical knocks at the time for contrasting the humorous escapades of its acting troupe with the cataclysmic downfall of Warsaw.
It’s a tough line to walk, but director/writer Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder) gives it a go with Jojo Rabbit, his bittersweet comedy that...
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The Nazis have been the subject of screen satire going all the way back to their peak of power and aggression, as seen in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940) and Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942) ripping Hitler and his minions a new one in real time, even as the world was discovering the full extent of the horrors they inflicted were known. Both films are considered masterpieces now, but the latter in particular received its share of critical knocks at the time for contrasting the humorous escapades of its acting troupe with the cataclysmic downfall of Warsaw.
It’s a tough line to walk, but director/writer Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder) gives it a go with Jojo Rabbit, his bittersweet comedy that...
- 10/8/2019
- Den of Geek
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