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

Amy 2022-04-20 09:01:16

I've been with me for a long time, I'd rather be me. Jojo is a little boy in the movie, but he's not like the Jewish kid in "Life is Beautiful" who lives in the game world planned by his father, nor is he like "The Man in Striped Pajamas" The son of the officer who used the concentration camp as a playground in The Boys 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 Hitler Youth League was also the last line of defense in Berlin at that time. Hitler encouraged these teenagers to continue to resist, while he hid in the basement and committed suicide. The movie "Jojo's Rabbit" also uses a very nonsensical way to express the last resistance of the Hitt Youth League, which looks very funny, and Jojo was also ordered in danger, put on an SS coat, and taken away as a prisoner . If Captain K hadn't helped him take off his coat, he might have died. The technique of this scene is very similar to "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", the difference is that one is redemption and the other is punishment. In addition, various bodily organs are present throughout the film. For example, the windows on the roof that look like eyes, raising hands to say hello to everyone, belly full of butterflies, legs with shoelaces, and various Demonized Jews, etc. 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. During the epidemic period, I can feel pain at home for a month, let alone during the war, those who have to hide for a year and a half, are locked up for a year and a half, and cannot see the end of their lives. One of the pages impressed me a lot, it was a little boy with a key and a rabbit in a cage. 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.

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  • Cassandre 2022-03-24 09:01:23

    The ubiquitous conflicts are the most interesting: children's perspectives and adult choices, active involvement and forced confrontation, dreamy conjectures and oppressive reality. The play is always a small piece of Wen Tun, trying to tear apart the image at the point of strong emotional explosion, but it still falls into a bubble-like romantic trap. Perhaps this era is no longer sharp, and gentle narration has become the most extensive and safest way of expression.

  • Ibrahim 2022-03-22 09:01:20

    The children are not as naive as they thought. Their world is full of colors and colors. What they fear most is ghosts, ghosts, monsters, and multidimensional drawings that adults can't see. Adults are not as wise as visible, their world is full of power, money, beauty and life-and-death disputes. What they fear most is the gradual loss of the human heart that they can't see clearly, and the truth, goodness and beauty. The child will eventually become an adult, but he can choose to keep the innocence and the clear eyes of the world. Adults cannot go back to being children, but they can choose to save that innocent and clear eyes on the children.

Jojo Rabbit quotes

  • Elsa Korr: Is it dangerous out there?

    Jojo Betzler: Extremely.

  • Adolf Hitler: Let them say whatever they want. People used to say a lot of nasty things about me. "Oh, this guy's a lunatic!" "Oh, look at that psycho! He's gonna get us all killed!"