is a comedy that transports former leaders to modern times, obviously not just to show their overwhelmed face of high technology, make people laugh at their clumsiness, and at the same time generate a sense of intellectual superiority. If you want to express this center, you can just call Hans or Maria, and if you do it properly, you can still make a film in the style of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". But if the famous Adolf Hitler is called, it must be inseparable from politics. Although the film uses a large number of distorted and distorted subjective viewpoint shots at the beginning to express Hitler's shock and discomfort after crossing the border, within half a day the Führer was already sitting in the newsstand reading newspapers in vertical and horizontal rows; The computer is really clumsy like a child, and clicking the mouse is like poking a dead mouse on the kitchen floor, but within a few hours, the man is in control, roaming the cyberspace to his fullest, albeit with a sip The old-fashioned discourse of grand nationalism, (Wikipedia: The crystallization of the wisdom of the Viking nation! At the same time, it is accompanied by moving tears.) But between him and the computer that symbolizes modern technology, there is no longer a point of laughter.
Let Hitler come back is a brain hole of the German writer Timur Welm. Considering the current national conditions in Germany, it is really a sense of borrowing the past to satirize the present. The birth rate has been declining year after year, and the labor gap has expanded; the aging population is serious and the social burden is increasing; and the recent immigration issue has continued to ferment, leading to chaos in public security. Clear, but there is almost no suspense about the resurgence of the right-wing forces. In this context, the novelist summoned Hitler, perhaps the most famous politician in German history, the Reichskanzler who once created the German economic miracle, the racist who had brutally massacred 6 million Jews, and let him from 1945 Time travel to 2014, and give some guidance in this ill-stricken society. So we heard the grief of the Japanese Prime Minister over the defeat of Germany, his disdain for TV entertainment, his hatred of young people, and the accumulated grievances of the German people in his conversations with him. This part of the movie is mostly in the form of a pseudo-documentary, and the shaking footage is shot in real time, and even some people in the picture are real passers-by at all, and some of them have been coded for some reason (?). However, this is only the first half of the film, and the organizational structure is relatively fragmented. According to Hitler's blueprint, it belongs to the process of information accumulation. In the second half of the film, the film is no longer simply an embarrassing comedy of "people in a foreign land", but incorporates the usual political reflections of German films. Hitler, the man who traveled through 70 years ago, seems to be grasping the trend of history once again. Starting from a comedy show, it gradually became the mainstay of ratings, and finally took the top spot in the decision-making meeting of the TV station, and even became the number one public figure in Germany, winning a lot of cheers and pursuit (here, the "information explosion" in social media is used vividly. expresses a feeling of frenzy). And this conveys the same concern as the movie "The Tide": How far is Germany from Nazism?
But comedy is still a comedy after all, and it suddenly gave Hitler, whose career was booming, a ridiculous blow in the middle. In the process of filming interviews with reporters around, he shot a dog on a whim. Once the black history was exposed, his image plummeted in the eyes of Germans who love dogs like life. To a certain extent, this also reflects the blindness of the masses. After being fired by the TV station, the grief-stricken Hitler stayed at the reporter's house, and wrote a thick stack of autobiographies about his life experience after crossing. The smart reporter saw the opportunity to make a fortune again, and applied for funds to start filming the film based on it, and Hitler went to play himself. The structure of the play within the play began to take shape, and the boundaries between the two levels gradually blurred. The scene on the top of the building was really only seen at the end and I found out that it was just the play of the person in the play (speaking of which, this one reminds the author of Bruno Ganz "Under the Berlin Sky", but the angel standing on the roof in "The Sky". In addition, Gantz also played the head of state in "The Destruction of the Empire"). So is it possible that the movie we are watching is the finished product shot by the people in the movie? This is really unthinkable. When I think about it, it is like being trapped in a Russian nesting doll, layer by layer, never ending.
At the end of the film, I personally feel that there are multiple clues mixed together, and it seems that the ending hastily ended. It would be great to write a little more writing about the awakening and arrest of journalists, and how Hitler regained the hearts and minds of the people step by step. However, the follow-up filming at the end of the film is already very good. The lively soundtrack, the sincere smiles on people's faces, and the head of state sitting in the car as if inspecting the situation of the people, make people feel the kind of thing in Dylan Matt's "Tunnel". Irreparable horror. Although as a comedy, it has limited depth, does not directly describe social conflicts, and is full of absurd and exaggerated plots in the process of the head of state's ascension, the landscape of national frenzy it shows is still chilling. Hitler once mentioned in the film that he never fooled the people, they chose him; the people were a piano, and he was the player. This is inevitably worrying: is Germany already tuned and waiting for the player to appear?
Of course, this film can also be understood from the perspective of "entertainment to death". Just like in "Black Mirror: The Value of 15 Million": the protagonist's accusation against the entertainment system is internalized and dissolved by the entertainment system, and finally threatening suicide with glass fragments has become a drama, only for the audience of the Bo show Smile - Hitler's ending in this film can also be fully understood as a second-rate TV star who expresses his political ambitions with extreme seriousness, but is only used by the public as a prime-time entertainment. However, if you think about it pessimistically, fake dramas can also be done, just like the Jewish grandma said: "When Hitler first came to power, everyone laughed at him." But even so, the author is still optimistic. After all, Germany now has strong social and economic strength, a sound democratic system, highly open information, and the constraints and restraints of international organizations. It is almost impossible for history to repeat itself. And I believe that with the lessons of history, there should be many people like journalists in German society, and they will make a difference (although the film puts him in a mental hospital for the sake of highlighting the theme). In this film, "Lessons of History" is transformed into the Jewish grandmother, who is said to have Alzheimer's disease, but is more sober than anyone else on key issues. If the reporter represents a role similar to the "White Rose Action Group", then this old grandmother can be regarded as a historical witness like Primo Levi. Although more than 70 years have passed, the scars of history are still clearly visible, and they still jump when the action is too violent. The German nation, which has always been known for its thinking, must be keenly aware of this.
In addition, there are many cleverly designed intertexts and small details in this film, which are like Easter eggs for German fans, World War II fans, history fans and other groups. What impressed me most was that the supervisor faced each other in the small conference room after the crisis in the operation of the TV station. The part where a few subordinates were furious, the gloomy gray room, the trembling hands, and the frantic voice were completely imitating "The Destruction of the Empire". And the most talked about "I came to Hebei Province (Und doch habe ich allein)" also appeared in the film, which instantly caused everyone to burst into laughter. Oops, you said that Yuan first saw these spoof videos, what would he say? The first, of course, was a long silence. Then we will hear his faint voice: "Degenerate. It's degenerate! You are walking into the abyss..."
Xia Chuannan
29/05/2016
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