2015 comedy, dir. David Wnendt, Oliver Masucci, Fabian Busch'
IMDb /
allmovie. Hitler appears in
the present day, and an unemployed TV producer makes him a star.
This is effectively played deadpan: Hitler doesn't claim to be
anything except Hitler (nobody knows or seems to care how he's arrived
in the present day), and says things Hitler would have said (well, all
right, the more charismatic and younger Hitler rather than the
drug-addled raving fool of the last days in the bunker)… and the
people say "well, you know, that makes a lot of sense".
Which I perceive as a drawback of painting Nazis as the ultimate
monsters: no, they were people, people who chose to do horrible
things because those seemed like reasonable choices for them to make.
There are shades of Network here of course, as well as the obvious
Downfall parody. But while I might have appreciated this in 2015
it's increasingly obvious that nobody was listening to this film, or to
me, or to anyone else who thought that Nazis were a bad thing.
I talk about this film further on
Ribbon of Memes.
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