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Victoria - Season 1

7.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Victoria comes to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism –...

Anne Neville: Richard Iii's Tragic Queen

Amy Licence

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the...

Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays

Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth Maclean

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For a brief period in the late Elizabethan Era an innovative company of players dominated the London...

The Third Nero: Flavia Albia 5 (Falco: The New Generation)

Lindsey Davis

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Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble - her new husband may be permanently disabled and they...

Things That Happen: And Other Poems

Arunava Sinha and Bhaskar Chakrabarti

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Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His...

Victoria

Daisy Goodwin

9.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

Book

From the creator of the ITV Sunday night drama, VICTORIA, comes the exclusive standalone novel by...

Mortal Kombat (1995)

6.6 (19 Ratings) Rate It

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For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal...

Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Jojo Rabbit (2019) in Movies

Jun 27, 2020

Jojo Rabbit (2019)

2019 | Comedy, Drama, War

8.0

(40 Ratings)

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After seeing the trailer for this I was very skeptical. I wondered how Hitler during Nazi Germany times could possibly be funny, even in satire. Truth be told, the only reason I got past that stage was because the movie stars Sam Rockwell, and I'm a sucker for him.

I stand corrected on my initial assessment.

Jojo Rabbit is a hilarious take on the life of a child during Nazi reign in Germany. Adolf Hitler is represented as an imaginary friend of a young man who is coming into his own. I know, this seems wicked dark and awful at the same time. But the way that it's approached by the film makers creates an environment that educates and enlightens to the times that were lived by the people of Germany while making it a bit lighter so that it doesn't weigh down all of your emotions to the point of not being able to carry them.

There are some very serious moments and I wouldn't recommend watching with young children (that should be a given if you watched the trailer). However, it is well worth a watch, or even a second. The acting alone is worth a second look.