Berlin or Bagdad, Bombing Still Kills

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2005)

Sit in the movie with bombs bursting all around you, and tell me you can't feel for the people of Bagdad. Listen to the secretary say, "We didn't know, but we should have."...Hitler's REAL secretary who died 2 years ago......and think of our sheeple in America. They had no clue that their country was becoming a dictatorship, where the monsters running the federal government cared nothing for the people, but only for power. Any similarities to Amerika, where our media are owned by the corporations who diddle the puppet strings of Bush? Excellent portrayals of the families so mesmerized by the charisma of this Bush-like Hitler that they murdered their children and themselves. You know this happened but to see Medusa Goebbels (or was it Goering) poisoning her children, one of them resisting) or to see the Doctor of the obscene medical experiments blowing his family up at dinner is to have the real charisma of this monster exemplified.
Watching Hitler be tender to the secretary wasn't difficult, as it's important to know that he was just like us. He just had the power of charisma (how sad that a word would come from Christ to represent these indescribably evil people). The sound effects of the bombing of Berlin, the hanging of the Germans who wouldn't fight, even as their 'empire' collapsed around them.....all this was so evocative of the end days of our own country. As I exited the theatre, other people were remarking on the similarities between the German 'patriots'.. Hitler followers... and our sheeple, willfully indifferent to the slaughter by their excellently trained armies of innocent people. Hitler's insanity is well emphasized by his continual planning, his announcement that new planes were being supplied (by Bush's grandfather, who was stopped by our government finally from financing the Luftwaffe factories) even as Berlin crumbles around him. The suicides by the Army officers were so sad, because they truly believed that our government would be as brutal to them as they were to our prisoners. Then, no; now, yes with our architects of torture at the highest level of our government. Encourage your fellow citizens to see this movie. If they are not completely anesthetized by the Bush propaganda machine, they will see the parallels. Of course it won't, but it should win some Oscars for the excellent acting, writing and sound effects.