It's not comedy, it's the war from the eyes of a child

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2020)

Let me start with saying that this movie is quite historical correct and is filmed completly from the mind of a young 10 year old boy that is very happy with his life so far. This boy is introctinated with Nazi propaganda, Hitler is the man he looks up to, even more, his imaginary friend is Hitler. Not the real one offcoarse, he is imaganary so Hitler his behaviour is a mix between the real one and a child.
This gives the movie an intresting start because children were indeed indroctinated, they went into the Hitler Jugend and the movie doesn't alter that from a historical point of view. The other characters behave not like you would expect but also again from how the boy sees it.
As the movie progresses he is forced to start to doubt everything he believes and tries to comprehend as he is confronted with al the terrors at the end of a war, sometimes it's a bit funny, sometimes you will be shocked.
The movie goes over a lot of topics that are very risky to touch: manipulating children with the Hitlerjugend, using and sacrificing children in a war that was already lost (the defense of Berlin was in fact for the largest part the Hitlerjugend), how the Nazi portrayed Jews and actually believed it next to other more usual topics you would expect.
In one scene where bullets are flying trough the sky and the boy is confused as he doesn't comprehend anything he looks at 2 german soldiers that are fighting dressed in funny clothes decorated with pink triangles what confuses him even more.
The movie will not tell you what that ment because the boy will never understand it in his life but neither will most viewers do. In case you wonder what the fuss is about the pink triangle, it was given under article 175 that sended you off to a concentration camp where you would die a lot faster then if you were given a star of david. Article 175 stayed in effect, survivors of concentration camps were send of to prison after the war, Germany first reconized this in 2002, in 2018 the German president asked for forgiveniss for this "suffering and injustice".
But from the perspective of this child, he only sees funny clothes, pink triangles and that it has something to do with the Nazi's. The rest of the story will be somehting for a future generation, that is how deep this movie actualy goes.
Yet the movie has it funny moments because the mind of a child under extreme pressure behaves not like you would expect.
Not everyone will see the movie as I do, some will see it as satire and more comedy. Others will find it a very strange movie, that is something you will have to find out for yourself.