Heart and love can prevail

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2020)

The story is proof of the adage 'Kill them with kindness' when what we really want to kill is hatred. Director Taika Waititi takes one of the most gruesome moments of human history and finds humour and beauty in narrating it. (I can only remember Mel Brooks doing something similar before with The Producers - in a completely different story though.) Surrounded by well known, seasoned actors (Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Rebel Wilson), the two children - Roman Griffin Davis and Thomasin McKenzie - stand out. And Waititi in the role of the imaginary Hitler is hilarious. Be prepared to laugh out loud in one scene yet cry your heart out in the next.
It's a story that needs to be told over and over again because people easily turn a blind eye to the horrors of humankind, but heart and love can prevail.