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My local cinema, Odeon, are not showing it. They have 4 showings of Cats a day and I'll hazard a guess than none of those are anywhere near full.
My local cinema, Odeon, are not showing it. They have 4 showings of Cats a day and I'll hazard a guess than none of those are anywhere near full.
I thought it was excellent, except the shoes bit - that got me with its shock/surprise factor.
I'd echo this, loved Wilderpeople and thought this was great tooSaw it yesterday. Really enjoyed it, quite dark, but also funny. And at the same time you can kind of see it all happening again in today's society.
Indeed.And at the same time you can kind of see it all happening again in today's society.
Absolutely beautiful film, very emotional at times. As mentioned above the shoes bit. The bit with Sam Rockwells character at the end as well (or indeed any scenes he's in!).
Indeed.
Well acted weird and bizarre on every level parallel universe pastiche. Nothing in it makes much sense, from the non-germanic names of characters (Jojo with american "j"?), through "the sister", acts of the mother, rainbow Wehrmacht, cardboard Hitler Jugend uniforms, the whole lot - the set up, the premise and the punchline. I don't get the love for this movie. It's not "Life Is Beautiful" for 21st century. It's "Freddie Got Fingered" type of comedic masturbation all over really serious, really heavy, deserving utmost respect background. Just because Tarantino can pull off "alternate universe" slavery/Nazi/Hollywood murder lols tastefully it doesn't mean that nazism, WWII resistance, Anne Frank scenarios are now a fair game to every Kiwi stoner under the sun. I don't understand why this idea is applauded. This is an equivalent of Ricky Gervaise doing comedic feature production on English colonisation of Maori people? Fair game?
Your post kind of ignores the long tradition of directors of multiple different backgrounds using absurdity to make light of Nazism (and that the director is Jewish, but I don’t think that influenced his decision to make this film). It doesn’t make light of the original events but by putting the ridiculous alongside the real, it shows that the real was ridiculous on many levels. It is very difficult to counter argue against poisonous ideology in any other way.
But that's the point - it doesn't "show that the real was ridiculous". It's not lapooning bad guys Vs good guys. It isn't even lampooning everything and everyone like Alo, alo used to.
Mr Waititi (who, to correct your apologism, is about as Jewish as Boris Johnson is native viking, or about 1/6th blood related to someone who was direct descendant from a Jewish mother) instead elects to invent a bizarro parallel universe where Germans and some nazis in this conflict are the good guys. For "lolz". It's a world where a jewish girl (played for comedic effect by blue eyed celtic New Zealander) is for five years saved and sheltered by a German mother (played for comedic effect by an ashkenazi jewess) of a funny and friendly Volkssturm Waffen-SS Hitlerjugend kid with a Yankee nick name. And when things get serious both get rescued (from gestspo and freeing Russian forces respectively) by a good Nazi Wehrmacht Hauptmann.
It is one weird story painting one bizarre picture for the next generations but as long as it's funny, right?