This film's major contribution.

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2006)

To me, perhaps the main issue addressed by the movie is to what an extent an uncritical, no-questions-asked support of a leader not only by his people but by his close entourage and society's controlling institutions may go. That such an uncritical attitude and obsessional following or obeisance of any whims and decisions of a leader or ruler can -and in time, will- bring ruin and dissolution to a society (as it certainly did to one of the most cultured ones in the world) is the lesson all watchers of this movie must learn. And this will apply not only to Hitler (that he is not depicted or clichéd as having Jewish kids for breakfast is beside the point) but to any other leader or ruler in any country of the world. It may be argued that Hitler was no better or worse than other despots in 20th century history, call them Stalin,Pol Pot or Castro, as differences in their political and socio-cultural environments makes comparison of little pertinence, but what they all have in common is their blind acceptance and following by their peoples and the consequent debasing of their different countries' institutions and democratic checks and balances, which these rulers invariably nulled and voided, either by outright suppressing them or by putting them at their unquestioned service. A serious, dis-passioned and objective questioning of such a posture is perhaps the film's major contribution.