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haveyouseenthismovie-poll · 9 days

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#movies #polls #jojo rabbit #2010s movies #taika waititi #roman griffin davis #thomasin mckenzie #scarlett johansson #requested #have you seen this movie poll

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where-our-stories-start · 2 years

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#jojo rabbit #elsa korr #thomasin mckenzie #jojo betzler #roman griffin davis #judaism #jewish identity #nazis cw #nazism cw #antisemitism cw

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filministic · 7 months

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Jojo Rabbit (2019) dir. Taika Waititi

#Jojo Rabbit #movie #2010s #кролик джоджо #Roman Griffin Davis #Sam Rockwell

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ilikestuff69 · 7 months

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‘Jojo Rabbit’ (2019)

Directed by Taika Waititi

#jojo rabbit #taika waititi #roman griffin davis #thomasin mckenzie #scarlet johansson #sam rockwell #rebel wilson #alfie allen #stephen merchant #archie yates #captain klenzendorf

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pedroam-bang · 2 months

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

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escapismthroughfilm · 1 year

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camyfilms · 4 months

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JOJO RABBIT 2019

You're not a Nazi, Jojo. You're a ten-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.

#jojo rabbit #2019 #roman griffin davis #thomasin mckenzie #scarlett johansson #taika waititi #sam rockwell #rebel wilson #alfie allen #stephen merchant #archie yates #gabriel andrews

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asgoodeasgold · 10 months

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Matthew Goode 'grumpy pants jig'

[Term courtesy of @ingridmhu ]

For @ingridmhu and @joyksooner with love 💗

Hilarious and poignant scene in Silent Night, with poor put upon dad Simon expressing his mounting frustration and helplessness in this comical dance.

But come to think of it, it's a Goodey quirk, he did the same in Birthmarked!

Link to whole scene:

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 month

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Jojo Rabbit walks a delicate line. One scene is laugh-out-loud, darkly comedic. The next is soul-crushing. When you look at it on paper, it shouldn’t work. On the screen, it’s memorable, tender, hilarious and insightful - a picture like none other. There are some who will find it tasteless but for the rest, it's one you'll be compelled to revisit.

In the final years of WWII, Ten-year-old Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) dreams of serving in Nazi Germany's army like his absent father. While at Hitler Youth Camp, Jojo follows the advice of his imaginary best friend, a child’s rendition of Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi). After an accident cripples him, he is sent back home. There, he discovers his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is harbouring a Jewish teenaged girl (Thomasin McKenzie).

This film excels at exposing the hypocrisy of the propaganda necessary to keep the Nazi machine (and similar systems) going. Jojo is only a child and even he has difficulty understanding how Elsa can be a demonic creature with horns and wings that drinks blood and can mind control good German boys, is cripplingly fascinated with shiny things and also an enemy the Nazis will easily eliminate. To him, she looks just like a normal girl. None of the interactions they have confirm her as dangerous.

The characters of Elsa, Jojo and his mother are all played relatively straight. Everyone else is a living contradiction. Rebel Wilson plays Fräulein Rahm. Despite being unmarried, she boasts having given birth to 18 children for Germany. How that’s possible, who knows. Her unreleting enthusiasm for the Nazi cause is bizarre considering her job at the Hitler Youth camp is to teach the girls there to dress wounds, take care of the injured… and have children. Not particularly exciting compared to the boys, who get to play with live munitions and enjoy the outdoors. The next noteworthy contradiction within the film is Nazi Germany’s attitude towards children. We’re told they’re the future, that the world will belong to them but as the tide of war shifts, we see the kids become be extremely disposable in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bit of off-sceen gruesomeness. The whole thing is topped by Taika Waititi’s portrayal of Hitler. Self-described as a Polynesian Jew, even if Waititi wasn’t directing and writing, his casting would feel like a smart, subversive inside joke. As the film begins, this Adolf Hitler is Jojo’s best friend. Once the boy starts questioning what the authorities have been feeding him, Hitler becomes increasingly hostile and comical. He’s more “so pathetic you’re glad you can laugh at him” than “funny because it’s so wrong to see Hitler doing this” kind of funny.

Lest you think this film does not take what happened during WWII seriously, understand that key scenes make you forget all about the fanciful imagination of Jojo’s world and bring you back to reality. The scenes with him and his mother, for example, are surprisingly grounded. You can feel the exhasperation Rosie must feel as her son makes all of these statements about Adolf Hitler, the Nazi cause, Jews and Germany. How frustrating it must be for her to endure what she hears. She could tell Jojo what the truth is, but he's a child. He doesn't understand what's really going on and doesn't understand that admitting the truth out loud could have serious consequences.

Though there are some big, memorable laughs within Jojo Rabbit, the dramatic revelations are so sobering that the drama/comedy split doesn't feel like it's down the middle. Said revelations only come in during the latter half of the movie, however, so they hit you when you least expect it - and hit you hard. This is not the kind of movie you easily forget precisely because it makes bold, bizarre-sounding choices. Though there is a chance you'll be so off-put by "Jojo Rabbit" that it won't be your cup of tea, every move that's being made has been carefully considered and the themes used throughout make it a picture I don't hesitate to recommend. (February 10, 2023)