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

Jun 27, 2020  
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
2019 | Comedy, Drama, War
9
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.
  
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Donna C (199 KP) rated Geiger in Books

Apr 21, 2021  
Geiger
Geiger
Gustaf Skordeman | 2021 | History & Politics, Thriller
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Not my kind of story (0 more)
Not for me
When I read the synopsis I was really interested in this book. But when it arrived and I started to read it, it turned out to be different to how I expected.

I got to about halfway through and decided I didn't want to finish it. I didn't really engage with the characters, or the story.

It started off with a 70 year old Swedish woman shooting her 85 year old husband dead after a phone call which just gave the code word Geiger. Then she leaves. That is what grabbed me. But then the story goes into Cold War territory and the relationship between Sweden and East Germany. The husband was a famous children's television personality in his younger days and would hold parties at his home which famous people would attend, including other TV stars, business people and politicians. But was he a spy working for East Germany? Or for Sweden against East Germany? And why is his wife now going around shooting other people connected to him? Is she the spy? I'll never know, as I only got to page 203.

If anyone would like to tell me how it ends, feel free.
  
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David Hudson recommended Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) in Movies (curated)

 
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
1980 | Documentary, Drama, International
(0 Ratings)
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"Yes, there was quite a controversy kicked up last year over the restoration. And while it’s not an uninteresting issue, it doesn’t distract from the gratitude we who hold Fassbinder dear feel when we hold this handsome box in our hands. This is the epic he was racing against destiny to complete; poring over the extras, you can’t help but sense that he knew it too. All of Fassbinder’s period pieces are, of course, about the Germany he lived in, the Germany I would begin visiting regularly just a few years after he’d gone, a Germany at ferocious odds with itself, arguing in the streets and in the papers and in classrooms and over dinner over what sort of country it’d make of itself, even in those later stages of starting all over again—not too long, of course, before starting all over yet again in 1989. An intense love-hate relationship with the German character, with German history and culture, and an ongoing recognition of the inextricability of the personal and the political, for better and for worse, permeate all of Fassbinder’s work; here, all that’s practically on parade. And the fireworks at the end are gruesome and gripping."

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Sawyer (231 KP) rated Fury (2014) in Movies

Aug 21, 2018  
Fury (2014)
Fury (2014)
2014 | Action, Drama, War
9
7.9 (47 Ratings)
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Great characters and interactions (1 more)
Very gritty and realistic look at the last days of World War II
Fury is a powerful and raw World War II story about a tank unit fighting to survive while pushing through Germany doing the tall end of the war

All the main characters do a great job strong action character moments and just powerful imagery throughout
  
    Colonial Conquest

    Colonial Conquest

    Games and Education

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    Play the USA, UK, Germany, France, Russia or Japan and shape the world during the colonization of...

    Spring Awakening

    Spring Awakening

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    Spring Awakening is a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater....