One of the best and funniest self critic to nazi

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2020)

An actor of Jewish descent playing Hitler in a film that he writes, produces and directs. Honestly, it couldn't be better!
Jojo Rabbit is not about the Nazi dictator, but about Jojo, a 10-year-old German boy who has the tyrant as an imaginary friend during the end of World War II. Jojo is another member of the Hitlerist Youth indoctrinated to praise blindly his country, his prejudices, his leader and the Reich, even in the decay of war. And it is with a lot of acid comedy and black humor that the work satirizes this, pointing out all the lunatic fanaticism that permeated the Nazis of that time - And of the present times.
With an excellent timing for the satirical strips, jokes and direct criticisms that flow in the speeches of the characters and in the montage of the scenes, with the right to mention the "Aryan" clones that the Nazis tried to produce and that needed to "go for a walk", the comedy Jojo Rabbit, based on a literary drama, treats the delicate subject of World War II terror with great care and comic mastery.
There is a fine line between what can be approached without disrespect to those attacked by the Holocaust and between apologies for that movement, and the film works on it in a very clever way - perhaps only seen before in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Bastards.
With the core of the narrative the young fanatic 10 years old who finds a Jewish girl being hidden by his mother in his own home, the film shows Jojo starting an internal debate, sympathy for the fugitive and, consequently, empathy and humanity for her . Jojo's progress in putting reason in the place of ideological fanaticism is a comic and striking statement against prejudice and growing discrimination in the present day since the horrors that happened in the 1940s.
The most delicate point when making a work of this type is the question of the appropriation of lives that could be insulted depending on its presentation. By focusing on the core of the boy and his imaginary Nazi friend, the only really appropriate life in Jojo Rabbit is that of Adolf Hitler himself who is recreated and debauched in a stubborn, clueless, cowardly and cartoonish version coming directly from a child's imagination. , in a very necessary way.
Featuring Nazis blind to common sense and the country's situation and believers only to what they didn't even see, the unreal caricatures of their enemies, the Jews, the film humorously emphasizes the Nazi prejudice and ignorance that he blamed, without no logic, to other peoples due to unusual situations that were actually caused by themselves, as in the case of a fat uncle, drunkard and gambler who only did what he did because he had been "hypnotized by the powers of the Jews".
With a production of realistic scenarios and a soundtrack from the 80's, this modern work that covers a fiction located in the 40's and with reflections in the current reality has the excellent performance of the young Roman Griffin Davis, who plays Jojo, of the world star Scarlett Johansson in the role of her zealous and spontaneous mother, and Taika Waititi who signs the work, gives paper and criticizes, for being exaggerated and ridiculous who Hitler was and how his ideas sounded.
What incredible irony! A film full of swastikas and intended to show their idiocy.