Amazing Movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2005)

This movie was totally awesome. It was wonderful to see the director make a movie based on real life stories and facts, regardless of worrying about what bad things people might say about the movie. I have heard a lot of controversy about portraying Hitler as a human being. This kind of thinking defeats the purpose of us writing down history and remembering it. If we all decide that Hitler was not a human being, but a devil or demon, or something of that nature, then we will doom ourselves to let another human being rise through the ranks to be a brutal dictator with intentions of world domination and ethnic cleansing. To say that showing Hitler as a human is wrong is to say that sugarcoating history is right.
I also found that the humanizing of Hitler has been way over-rated. The movie was not just about Hitler during the last days of the war; it was about the German Government scrambling about Berlin trying to figure out what they were going to do, slowing coming to the realization/acceptance that their worst fears were closing in on them. I really like the fact that the movie was not just suddenly over when Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves. It went on to show the frantic desperadoes of Berlin fighting to keep the city from surrendering to the Soviets, and also Traudl Junge's escape out of the bunker past the Soviet Soldiers.
Great visuals, great acting, and an amazing depiction of Adolf Hitler makes this my favourite movie of 2004. 10/10