Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit

A visually brilliant satire-drama about a young boy who faces odd ends growing up in Nazi Germany. The film revives truths of Nazi-infused Germany through the at times, contentious or soft-spoken conversations between a young Jewish girl in hiding and a boy with young charm exerts a seemingly moldable blind nationalism. The opposing sides of war-time thought played out by a sibling rivalry; a Nazi German period town awash in color and resolution; hints of Bauhaus-ian patterns in wallpapers and clothing seams; and an imaginary Adolf Hitler who uses phrases like "it's no big deal" to comfort his friend, a youngly-ambitious Jojo who just wants to be the best Nazi he can be; all attribute a thoughtfully delightful film which allows us to revisit the crux of past and ongoing consequences of human beings at war: that in all persons is the incredibly resilient and faithfully imaginative heart of a child that must face a grim reality and, at most, overcome and finally dance past it.

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