I've been with me for a long time, I'd rather be me

Marjolaine 2022-04-20 09:01:16

Jojo is a little boy in the movie, but he's not like the Jewish kid in "Life is Beautiful" who lives in a game world planned by his father, or the boy in "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" who treats concentration camps as amusements The son of an officer in the field, he was a fanatical Nazi, a German teenager who swore to protect Hitler with his life. I have seen the movie "The Tide". It is about a high school teacher and a student who conducted an experiment about dictatorship, requiring the students to obey absolutely. At first, the students also had a playful mentality. Later, the more they played, the more addicted they became. This group, the entire experiment has long been beyond the control of the teacher, and finally caused a tragedy and was urgently stopped by the school. The film is based on real events, and this film allows us to understand and reflect on collectivism, dictatorship, etc. As Nietzsche said, when you are staring into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. This is true for a group of high school students, not to mention a ten-year-old child like Qiao Qiao who has not yet formed three views. Although the final destination of "Jojo Rabbit" is all about anti-war, peace, love and freedom, but depicting the Hitler Youth Group from the perspective of a Nazi child's ideological transformation and awakening seemed fanatical at the time. I think it's incredible behavior, but it's still interesting. I checked the information. The Hitler Youth League was originally established in 1922. It was formerly known as the Boy Scouts. At first, this group was like Boy Scouts all over the world. It learned some military survivability through field camping. group. It is divided into men's and women's teams by gender, and subdivided into youth leagues and youth leagues by age. 10-14 years old belong to the youth league, and 14-18 years old can enter the youth league. In the film, Qiao Qiao is ten years old and just meets the minimum requirements for joining the group, joining the Youth League. The daily training of these regiments is led by an adult soldier. The film turns these real histories into a whimsy. In order to show the audience Hitler's mind control, it also turns him into a comedic spiritual mentor beside the little boy. In addition, various bodily organs are present throughout the film. For example, the windows on the roof that look like eyes, raising your hands to say hello to everyone, belly full of butterflies, legs with shoelaces, and all kinds of demonized Jews, etc., but these are not the point of expression, the point is The organ of the brain. The man who controls Jojo's brain, who controls the brains of children like Jojo, who controls the entire country, is Hitler himself. To a certain extent, Jewish girls are the ones who "save" the little boy's brain, let him know what the Jewish people are like, let him know that there are poems and dances in this world besides war, and let him have The famous scene of kicking Hitler. He can gradually control his brain and think independently instead of being washed by others. What awakened the boy's brain was the butterfly in his belly, the love his mother told him, and his love for Jewish girls. It used to be his mother tying his shoes, then he helped his mother and Jewish girls tie their shoes. Probably because of the epidemic, when boys and girls are leaning against the window to chat late at night, the boy asks the girl, if you are free, what is the first thing you want to do? The girl replied that it was dancing. I like this scene, it makes me feel the helplessness of being imprisoned and the yearning for freedom. Staying at home for a month can feel the pain, not to mention the wartime, those who have to hide for a year and a half, be locked up for a year and a half, and can't see the end of their lives. The little boy with the key was Jojo. He thought the monster in the cage was a Jew, so he needed to be locked up, but he didn't expect that he was actually locking himself up, a rabbit, and his Nazi side. If the meaning of this layer is enlarged, the little boy is a Nazi, and the cage is a concentration camp with Jews inside. The Nazis thought that imprisoning Jews like monsters would make the country stronger, but in the end, sadly, they did not See clearly, it is they who are locked in the cage. Therefore, the most terrifying thing in Jojo's whimsical world is not Hitler, not the Jew, but the self who has turned into a rabbit but doesn't know it. , it is they who are locked in the cage. Therefore, the most terrifying thing in Jojo's whimsical world is not Hitler, not the Jew, but the self who has turned into a rabbit but doesn't know it. , it is they who are locked in the cage. Therefore, the most terrifying thing in Jojo's whimsical world is not Hitler, not the Jew, but the self who has turned into a rabbit but doesn't know it.

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Jojo Rabbit quotes

  • Yorki: There are bigger things to worry about than Jews, Jojo. There's Russians somewhere out there. They're worse than anyone. I heard they eat babies and have sex with dogs. I mean like that's bad, right?

    Jojo: Sex with dogs?

    Yorki: Yeah. The Englishmen do it too. We have to stop them before they eat us and screw all our dogs.

  • Captain Klenzendorf: Well, if it isn't Herr Handgrenade himself.

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