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The Next Picture Show

Hitler Heil-arity, Pt. 2: Jojo Rabbit

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Walking the tricky tonal tightrope with Taika Waititi.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza,

0:07.4

you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.

0:10.3

Save and splurge at Accardo, the online supermarket.

0:13.0

Geographical and other restrictions.

0:14.6

Minimum spend, £60 and charges apply.

0:16.8

New customers only, maximum saving £20 terms at akado.com.

0:25.2

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being

0:31.9

we may be through with the past but the past is not through with us

0:39.8

welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:46.1

I'm Scott Tobias here again with...

0:47.6

Taj Robinson.

0:48.4

And Genevieve Kosky.

0:49.3

On our last episode, we talked about Mel Brooks's The Producers, which approached the sticky question of how to make a comedy around Adolf Hitler.

0:56.5

On this episode, we're bringing in Jojo Rabbit, Tycho Watiti's controversial new coming-of-age film about a 10-year-old German boy named Jojo Bessler in the waning days of World War II.

1:07.1

Jojo lives alone with his caring mother, Rosie, played by Scarlett Johansson,

1:11.6

and he's firmly in the nationalist grasp of Nazi Germany,

1:14.5

thanks in part to his relationship to his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, played by Watiti.

1:19.9

While in a Hitler youth training camp, Jojo develops a relationship with a cynical Captain Klensendorf,

1:25.0

played by Sam Rockwell, but back home, his loyalties are complicated

1:28.4

by the discovery of a Jewish girl hiding in the upstairs crawl space. Her name is Elsa Kor,

1:34.0

played by Thomas and McKenzie, and while Jojo's instinct is to turn her in, he's persuaded

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