Come On Guys! Chaplin and Allen!

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2008)

I'm not that keen on the film there were sparks of promising moments but disappeared with suicide the only character that I did feel sorry for was the poor secretary being put through something that was probably an un-decided future working for a psychotic Jew hater. The narrative obviously had a subliminal message we are sorry for Hitler he weren't that bad. I just do not understand the great fascination and sympathy for a man that should have no respect for what he stands for which is rather hellish, I feel that they are trying to show that he isn't that bad but a normal human doing what any normal human is thinking and doing unfortunately for the Germans, Italians and Austrians I will not be fooled by pure trickery. But a common think that seems to be in the most recent of war films of foreign soldiers is suicide take for granted The Letters From Iwo Jima although that is a lot better and looks better. I was also anticipating something as good as Das Boot. But I did like a lot of the shots that made you feel quite moving and gripping like that young boy. What made this movie memorable to me were the scenes in which we could see the cruelty and sickening determination of some German officers and soldiers to fulfill their Führer's orders even when it was clear he had committed suicide. What I also liked was Bruno Ganz performance. I feel that it is just a flattering portrait of a evil regime and the devil himself. It shows quite a dark and profoundly horrifying ordeal of a death of there Fúrher and would go to any lengths to save there believes even dying with them. Probably the most eye opening and memorable scene is of when the mother killed her children showing that she feels that nothing is worth living if the Nazi's fall. And shows a kind of domino effect with one falling all the others do as well. It also showed that they were so dependant on him. . It shows that Hitler is visibally shrinking and shaking as he contemplates the third riech and almost alternating from despair and madness. Plus Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen are Jewish so I side with them two