Absurd story, serious reflection, ruthless irony

Isabell 2022-04-21 09:02:53

Hitler was resurrected at the original site of the bunker where he committed suicide, and has traveled to 2014. The bunker has now become a green area of ​​a garage. A director who had just been fired by a TV station met Hitler who came across and thought he was a good actor, so he and him filmed interviews and documentaries about political issues in various places, hoping to return to work at that TV station. After the filming was completed, he and Hitler came to the TV station together. Unexpectedly, Hitler's performance was favored by a female executive who thought he was a good actor and let him participate in various TV programs. In the program, Hitler used his own Nazi views to attack various phenomena at home and abroad. Because of this highly controversial and inflammatory talk, the ratings of the TV program increased steadily and attracted widespread attention in society. Hitler He also became a smash hit TV star. Of course, neither the audience nor the TV crew regarded him as an actor, and no one believed he was the real Hitler. Later, because a video of Hitler shooting a dog was exposed, which caused great dissatisfaction among the audience, the TV station had no choice but to forbid Hitler from appearing on the show and fired the female executive. Hitler lived with the director, and he wrote a book about his experience, which he didn't expect to sell well after it was published. So he became the focus of the public and a popular star. The female executive, who was already working at a film company, decided to make the book into a film, and the director became the director of the film. During the shooting process, the director felt more and more suspicious of the origin of Hitler, so he went to the green area to observe carefully and found that this person was the real Hitler. He told the female supervisor about this finding, but was taken as mentally ill shut up. The film was completed and it was a huge success, Hitler had become a big star, and he had the support of neo-Nazi members in the meantime. After that, Hitler still commented on the world with his thoughts, and at the same time believed that he was supported by more and more people.
The film is based on the novel, and while the story is absurd and has a lot of comedy, it is still a work of reflection and satire. Some lines in the play are reflective, such as "Then you must also condemn those who elected this monster", "You can't get rid of me, I am part of you", "I can rely on the people", indeed It has a strong meaning of reflection, not only a reflection on history, but also a reflection on reality. The whole film, apart from expressing reflection, has a stronger irony, and the object of this irony is not only many aspects of the current Western society, but also the so-called democratic Western politics.

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  • Adolf Hitler: Those parliamentarians all put the whole money in their own pockets. I wonder that millions of people like you here don't stand up with torches und pitchforks in front of those parlamatarian barrel joints: 'What are you doing with our money?'

    [voice over]

    Adolf Hitler: But the German himself is not a revolutioner.

    [to a man]

    Adolf Hitler: Would you follow me too?

    Random Man: It's a bad time now. I have to work.

  • Fabian Sawatzki: How did Hitler came up with his moustage?

    Adolf Hitler: In the war I had to trim so it can fit into the gasmask.