refugee crisis, the hidden danger of terrorist attacks, the compassion of the Virgin Mary, and the rise of the right wing have made Germany, the current locomotive of Europe, also began to emerge on the humanitarian railroad track with a clear direction and a solid roadbed in the past few decades. Swinging pains. At this time, a "Hitler is Back" also appeared in the form of a comedy film at the right time, entered the public eye, and aroused heated discussions.
I haven't read the original book of the same name as a social satire, and it's not clear whether the time-travelling Führer presented in the book by author Timur Welm will be better than the one in David Weint's film. Ironic effect. But at least for me, the film version did not give one or several clear satirical critics, and the whole article was filled with a political ambiguous attitude or even a nonsense attitude of first right and then left. Of course, this can also be labeled as a logical and dialectical excuse - this is the current situation of German moral anxiety and the dilemma of the new world outlook.
Compared with accusatory films with strong opinions, especially documentaries, I have always preferred pessimistic ending films with pessimistic endings. The Germans who always try to do deep philosophical thinking behind the facts should have the most Create this "moral ambiguity" thinking advantage. Unfortunately, it seems that they are really not good at telling stories with movies, and only write papers through cameras, just like the "Wave" that was also wary of the Nazis' brainwashing ability eight years ago. From the play to the director, "Hitler is Back" failed to act as a persuasive psychological consultant, but more like a stern-faced German internal medicine doctor, listing a lot of social negative diseases, and when I don't know where to go Under the predicament of where to start, there is no medicine list.
In the home video quality at the beginning of the film, the Führer complains to a man who looks like a service industry manager that people don't know how to salute him, plus the introduction of the film - Hitler travels through time and space to modern and diverse Germany, and is surprised to find that the leader actually It's a woman, and the story of Poland still being an independent country makes one think it's a Borat-esque shit spoof. Then, the feature film unfolds in staggered HD and DV quality, and the Führer is transported to a garden outside contemporary Berlin where children play football, accompanied by Rossini's "Magpie" soundtrack already familiar to audiences in "A Clockwork Orange" Thief", appeared in the image of a uniformed clown, stumbled into the Brandenburg Gate, and was photographed by tourists from all over the world as special actors, with the sentence, "Thank you, go to hell with Hitler".
Everyone knows that post-war German society was extremely vigilant against Nazi ideology in a thorough reflection, and it is even less likely that someone would give the Nazi salute in public, let alone pretend to be Hitler. Then, when the mustache appears in contemporary Germany, what will be the interactive effect, and how will he look at the moment and get along with it if he puts himself in the position of the other? The story is boldly speculated.
Going through the drama will inevitably bring about the "laughing fruit" of cognitive contrast. Homeless Hitler at the newsstand that held him, flipping through the Turkish newspapers, "The Ottoman Empire changed the course of the war, and the Turks did not expect this ability"; "The Federal Republic of Germany is now led by an embarrassed woman who looks like a weeping willow, and she and Bavaria Christian alcoholics cooperate to build poor copycat National Socialism"; "Poland still exists and carves up German territory"; "The only hope seems to be the eccentric Greens, at least they want to protect German soil".
From here, the director let the strong desire to express social thoughts replace the fundamentals of good storytelling. Through the unemployed TV reporter, I took Hitler on a road trip from north to south in Germany, and carried out a pseudo-documentary-style show of conservative views. By the way, it broadened the head of the state and specified new propaganda strategies that keep pace with the times.
From his hotel room in Flensburg, he discovered through a cooking show that the public is highly dependent on the media. In front of Kiel's fried chicken shop, the female owner from the former East Germany sincerely recounts that she gave up voting because she did not trust the fraudulent election, and complained that she could not say anything about the status quo, or was xenophobic, which made He realized that democracy has little effect on people at all. In the beer hall in Westland, the old guys lamented that "all the bearded suspects should be driven out, but a lot of Salafi children were born here", which is obviously a public repression and a The anger that dare not speak out is very much like Germany in 1930. At the Dresden ranch, the hostess still complained about the influx of immigrants, but the little ones couldn't do anything. Hitler cleverly gave an example, "Mating a shepherd dog and a dachshund will get a shepherd dachshund. Imagine two shepherd dachshunds mating, just There will never be another collie and the species will disappear." After clearly discovering the serious constraints brought by the stigma of war to the Chinese people, Hitler believed that as long as he throws out some keywords, he can become a new bait.
It's not that popular leaders post photos now, and Hitler also discovered the magic of entertaining "political disenchantment" in the process of "going to the grassroots". He's revived his old career as a street painter, cutting through pop culture and becoming a YouTube star. In the meantime, the director also expressed another kind of sober voice, an old man condemned in front of the painter, "If someone imitated Hitler in the square in 2014, and the public can tolerate it, this is never a good thing, if I can make the decision, I will definitely drive you out. go".
With the help of the TV station, it cooperated with the Riefenstahl-style strong female director to make the "imitation show star" in the eyes of the audience go to the talk show platform. That was the stage he was most familiar with and excelled at. He knew the majestic power of silence, and gradually started by attacking low fertility rates and TV rubbish, so that more and more people sought after him on the Internet, making Hitler the first to become a "YouTube" Head of State". The public, while enjoying the joy brought by fresh entertainment idols, felt that what he said was very reasonable.
It makes sense. This may also be the vague attitude of this film. From the story structure, it is impossible to see that the director is ready to criticize the "original sin equally" of the mediocre people. The film continues to show the emotions of contemporary Germans who dare not be angry or speak out. Neo-Nazis only dare to show off "German food" cooking with black socks, and the far-right political party NPD dare not even hang a big sign in front of the Munich headquarters. . Hitler's increasingly strong media speech charm was hit to the bottom by a video of shooting a puppy. This is a new era of political correctness in command, and one of the worst crimes is dog cruelty.
So no matter if you are under the premise of stubborn political correctness, or the director himself is a white leftist who is a little bit speculative, he has to fill the "right-wing justified hole" that he dug before. Very unnatural, the story made the Führer accidentally break into the house of an old Jewish lady, and the little reporter who was a supporting role realized that the "actor" in front of him was the real Hitler, and realized the reversal from emotion to plot to point of view.
"I was chosen by the people, I am a part of you, and I am in your hearts," the head of state on the rooftop said confidently in the face of the little reporter's guns. And this is just a bowl of chicken soup served by the director. With the end credits, Hitler patrols his former territory in a convertible, some people take pictures, some people shout, some people give Nazi salutes, some people give middle fingers. Although he failed to tell the story well through the film, at least the director used a large number of group performances and even deliberately black bars some people's eyes, reflecting the specter of the extreme right or the extreme left floating forever on the basis of the huge crowd.
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