Cartoonish

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2020)

This is why I rarely watch mainstream movies today: it's because they are cartoonish versions of more serious movies. Like this movie, "Jojo", which portrays Berlin at the end of ww2 as a dreamy, romantic place - let me break it to you: it was not. Berlin at the end of ww2 was all in rubble, you couldn't find stone standing on another stone, and people were starving. There weren't any postcard-like streets where you can dance and dream.
So you really have to wonder why don't people rather watch Rossellini's 1948 movie "Germany Year Zero" which is also about a boy in Berlin, although immediately after the war, facing grim reality of destroyed Berlin and whole German nation? And the answer is that that movie is too grim for today's audience, they need watered down and cartoony version of that movie - and that is very disturbing.