Jojo Rabbit UNEDITED REACTION (all access)

I will have to check it out!

I love that even 2 years later I'm learning new things about this movie that make it even greater

Heidi Liedtke

I've loved all the comments so far. My addition this watch was how much I loved how Captain Klenzendorf and Finkel's war outfits highlighted the pink triangle that would've been used against them.

Anna

A lot of the opening black and white footage was real. A lot of it was taken from propaganda films from just before and around the time of the1936 Berlin Olympics. If you are interested in films about late-war Germany, Downfall (Der Untergang) is one of the best war films ever made. It has many of the same darker themes, without the same level of comedy.

Benny

Heck yeah!!! Might just do that

My favorite thing about this movie, besides the movie itself, is that Taika Waititi is Maori/Jewish and felt he couldn’t ask anyone to play Hitler and in the end “what better F**k you to the guy” then to be played by him. Since you mentioned it In Bruges is incredible. I would totally watch your reaction to it.

Crystal Laherrere

Love the comment about how everyone in the town would have been able to see Jojo crying over his mother and how they were all scared to go out to him. I hadn't even thought about that. To me that scene always made me think about the spying side of things - especially because someone must have turned the mother in - but the point about people being scared and not helping Jojo is an excellent point. I'm not sure if it's the same poem but there's one called "First They Came..." written by a German man, post world war 2, which sounds like what you're talking about.

Heidi Liedtke

Ugh! I could talk about this movie for hours. I love everything it does! I think the ending is so strong because Taika Waititi is so good at imagery and callbacks. The shot where Jojo finds his mother hits even HARDER than it already does, because throughout the entire film there has been lots of shots of his mother standing in that exact same position, where it's his face and her shoes. And at the end when they do the call backs for the shoe tying, the dancing, the "is it dangerous out there" "extremely", even the fact that Jojo can now click his fingers when he couldn't earlier in the movie. *chefs kiss* I think it's a really great movie that sheds light not only on how easily people can be indoctrinated to let stuff like this happen, but also makes fun of how ridiculous that belief is - that some people are lesser than others. It's the only way you could make a comedy about wwII I think, to make it clear that Hitler and the nazis really were outrageously ridiculous with their beliefs.

Heidi Liedtke

Taika Waititi is one of my all-time favorites. I've been a fan since Eagle vs. Shark. If you want to keep up some Waititi love and kind of keep with the comedy horror genre, What We Do in the Shadows is always worth a watch (or rewatch)! As for Jojo Rabbit, I am a sucker for films that explore child psychology and grief, etc., and this does so masterfully. With tragedy, like WWII and the Holocaust, I think the innocence, imagination, and ability to call out the absurdity if the adult world that the childhood view offers is jarring enough to jolt jaded grownups out of their ennui more effectively. This movie is one of the best examples of that I've seen. Great reaction vid. Thanks.

I Ride A Pegasus To Work

Great movie & great reaction (as always). Definitely intrested in what kind of roles the Jewish girl & Jojo will have in the future (if they decide to carry on acting). I also love the hints throughout the movie that the two relatively nice Nazi officers were secretly a couple even if it obviously didn't end up happy for them. Lastly the whole house inspection scene was so tense & the shot of the dead mother's shoes was as amazing as it was heartbreaking but the shot (where the windows of the houses look like eyes) afterwards also really gets to me because I think it can be read serval ways one of which is that in Germany at the time everyone was spying on everyone else & another is that Hilter's reign (as with a lot of terrible things in the world) had led to a scared country of such extream passivity in the face of clear suffering that even if everyone in that town center could see this young child crying over he's dead mother they would not help (it always reminds me of an African poem I was taught when I was younger, it was about how a man kept ignoring that he's neighbours were being taken away, insisting it had nothing to do with him so he didn't care, until of course it was him that the men in the van eventually came for & there was no one else left to witness he's disapearance & therefore no one else to care).

i love that movie, i've liked everything taika waititi did really. This movie makes you laugh, cry, and even laugh while you're crying. Another movie on WW2 that does the drama/comedy perfectly too is "life is beautiful", an italian movie from 1997, i recommend it strongly !

Blobina Random

Schindler's List, Prince of Egypt & JoJo Rabbit?? Satisfied Jew here lol

electricroad

I never watched this movie even though I wanted to. I looked into a bit and after watching it I feel this is one of the movies that critics get wrong, with scores around 50-80 and the audience above 85 to 95 I certainly believe the critics where wrong on this movie I loved it, it was very well done. I can't put my finger on it but it's a great idea, great cinematography, and a great final product and I liked it alot

Zach Winters

Whiplash is another good one!

Just Lily

Yes!! I love this movie so much, can't wait to watch the reaction!

Heidi Liedtke

Hey that's so cool, I love this movie! :)

H. Maurier

no way i was going to watch this again over the next few days !! soo excited for this, one of my absolute favourite movies

maeve