All right. The 1942 black-and-white film beats most films today.
Formally, the plot is multi-layered and not blunt: pretending to be a colonel to kill the professor, pretending to be a professor to deceive the colonel, pretending to be a general to pick up the hero, and finally pretending to be Hitler's successful escape
The characters are witty, especially the flattering foolish colonel and the often backstabbing Skooze pair; the action accompaniment has a bit of a cat-and-mouse vibe haha.
In terms of content, it is easier to pay attention to the dialogue "Long Live Hitler"-"Long Live Myself". But I think another paragraph is also very interesting, which is a dialogue between the heroine and Professor Zhen:
Professor Zhen: "Nazism, what we ultimately want to do is to build a happy world"
Heroine: "Those who don't want happiness will have no place in this happy world"
Others are hell, Sartre said. The happiness of others is not necessarily my happiness, and the will of others also affects my freedom. The horror of the Nazis was the stripping of individual independence in the name of happiness. Lubitsch, a German-Jewish man, expressed a similar point, in 1942.
The use of comedy to represent the Nazis is also an idea. Looking back at history, many things are absurd to make people laugh, but they did exist.
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