MOVIE REACTION Jojo Rabbit (2019) First Time Watching Reaction/Review

[@andrewcharles459]

Captain K as a prisoner holding Freddie's cape at the end made me sad. He had nothing left to live for at that point.

[@MDelorean]

Wow, I never noticed that before. Makes it even more sad. Thanks for your comment.

[@tarlane]

Captain K had a pink triangle on the uniform he designed. That was used to mark people who weren't straight by the nazis

[@e_lesko913]

Captain K? More like Captain Gay

[@JohnBham]

One of the few films that can take you from laughter to tears in 30 seconds flat. An awful lot to unpack, for hours after.

[@frenchph]

And then back to tears of a different type

[@mclancy1969]

... and a lot less than 30 seconds ... ​@@frenchph

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

How can one movie be parody, dramatically intense, frightening, reassuring, very touching, slapstick and heartbreaking? I'm not sure how exactly to describe this in a shorthand version. One of the best movies I have seen in years.

[@leonh.kalayjian6556]

Watched a lot of reactions but just realized something. After the mom told the girl a woman looks the tiger in the eye and Elsa looks at the painting, she develops the courage to confront the gestapo and impersonate Inga without stumbling or getting overcome

[@YourXavier]

Good point. She looks the gestapo tiger in the eye and doesn't flinch.

[@Vanyawwd]

33:47 you can see he’s wearing a pink triangle which is a concentration camp patch for gay men .

[@toschememestation1031]

As a kid, i asked my German grandfather about his experience during WW2 ( he was 17, when the war ended) Since I was quite young, he only told me a few things But he shared the story of what happened, when he was 15 and his local priest told him, he have to show up, at church regularly He told the priest, the only thing, I Have to do is ..then he performed the right arm party greeting and walked away on him I never will forget, how ashamed and betrayed his voice sounded and his face looked, when he told me that story I wished he lived long enough to see Jojo rabbit

[@manueldeabreu1980]

You got it but missed the explicit piece on Captain K and his boyfriend. They were wearing pink triangles, which is the badge the Nazis gave homosexuals. Captain K was a loyal German but not a Nazi. They were going out as who they were but in a way spitting in the Nazi regimes face.

[@RocketSurgn_]

The silliness and joking tone is partly that it’s Jojos perspective, but also taking on Mel Brooks approach- the best way to disarm that kind of system is to laugh at it. Not to say that bleaker perspectives are wrong or underestimate that it can gain a lot of power, but laughing at it is attacking their central source of power and best way to undermine their continued draw.

[@NeilLewis77]

i made the mistake of watching this on a plane. people near me getting a little nervous about why the tall guy in seat f is blubbing like a baby.

[@jmo2160]

Same. While watching The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas...

[@tbscotty813]

During the promos, I thought that is was impossible to parody the Nazis, but Waititi certainly pulled it off. I think this movie is one of the most daring, greatest pieces of cinematic art ever. Oh yeah, Rosie is one of the most amazing characters in cinema!

[@somthingbrutal]

the pink triangle is the equivalent of the star of david the jews had to wear, to identify "undesirable" individuals. so i think it's safe to say yes they were a couple

[@doug3691]

An amazing piece of cinema, perhaps Taika's greatest movie ever. A time when "being a good person" had 2 Very different meanings. Great commentary and reactions, guys.

[@balansboy]

Such a great movie. Unexpected. I initially didn't watch it. Based on the trailers, I thought there was no way it was appropriate to laugh at Hitler. But after finally watching, in context it is a genius movie

[@luviemoo]

i dont have the mental capacity to type out a whole essay about why right now but this was one of the best reactions i have seen of this movie, thank you i subscribed and will definitely be watching more

[@SolSister10596]

“It’s going to be animated” Ohhhh…. Oh, this is gonna be a good reaction.

[@jaives]

actually, nate, the complete opposite happened. Germany didn't have enough of the idealized Aryan (blonde, blue eyes) so they eventually made exceptions (dark hair, brown eyes, etc) as long as the person was a "superior" specimen.

[@LindaBarry-j2o]

The father was working for the resistance as Jojo’s mother was. She was protecting her son by allowing him to be part of “the Hitler youth”. The people that were hanged were also working for the resistance, hence, “they did what they could”.

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

Special, special movie, it just is, 10 out of 10, I don't need to say anymore.

[@vovindequasahi]

Such a great movie! Laughter is swallowed with bitterness, sometimes in the same scene. Tears of sadness and tears of joy... "NO STABBING!!!" lol!

[@Robalogot]

A similar movie is The Death of Stalin, where real events under stalin were so absurd they wrote it as a slapstick. But knowing that it all actually happened makes it such a dark comedy.

[@migmit]

Death of Stalin was surprisingly accurate too.

[@Steef_Lee]

I think a lot of people, not all, but a lot, were stoked. I think about how stoked certain elements in the US would be stoked to start killing their perceived enemies and it makes much more sense.

[@manueldeabreu1980]

After watching this I had to go watch the movie adaption of Watership Down. It is about a rabbit and it's colony. It is a book we read in school that is VERY intense. I wouldn't recommend the book or the movie for a child under 13 today.

[@susannariera]

Love this movie. Now you should watch Lubitsch's classic To Be or Not to Be, best "comedy" about nazis ever! Oh, and about the captain and the other man being a couple, yes, during the final fight they were both wearing a pink triangle on their uniform, that's how nazis marked gay people in the camps and ghettos.

[@RocketSurgn_]

The very awkward… greeting scene with Stephen Merchant etc, all the awkward repetition was very much on purpose. Tying to the rest of the movies take that their entire ideology, while obviously incredibly dangerous because of the people that bought into it, was absurd and full of contradictions and fixation on image that adds to the underlying weakness of the ideas themselves. They’re so stuck on professing loyalty that they waste immense time and energy on small pointless things like that. The broader idea that fascism is a bully’s mentality- a fragile core covered over with layers of performative “unity” based on fear.

[@RLucas3000]

And somehow the Republican Party has made anti-fascism into a bad thing. I’m 59 and never thought I would live to see it.

[@davidmichaelson1092]

When the butterfly appears...I know the reactor is about to be hit hard and has no idea what is coming. There are only two movies I know of that successfully parody Nazism in a way to denigrate it effectively. "The Producers" is the original one. Springtime for Hitler will always be one of my favorite songs!!! But "The Producers" was pure parody. This is both parody and serious. And mixes the two amazingly well. "The Producers" was a sledgehammer of parody, and did a wonderful job. This movie surgically dissects Nazism on all levels and reveals it as idiotic as well as tragic. And the best part, having a part-Polynesian, part-Jewish person play Hitler would make Hitler's head explode.

[@lafatte24]

The German movie look who's back is really good. Hitler transported to modern day Berlin, cue shenanigans. It gets progressively less funny as Hitler learns how to navigate modern society and grow a platform again.

[@danieldaponte1819]

I'm surprised you didn't show your reactions to captain k's death. Or rather, the sound of the gunfire implying his death.

[@RLucas3000]

That was a heartbreaker. I didn’t know the US rounded up Nazis and just killed them. I thought there were only trials.

[@vanyadolly]

@@RLucas3000 I think those were Russians.

[@lusinebaghyan8864]

​@@vanyadolly is it a propaganda that it were soviet russian soldiers who were executing them while american soldiers did not. And American flag was the one she saw understood that he lied? I'm not from any of those countries so from outsiders perspective it seems so.

[@migmit]

@@vanyadollyCorrect. They even shout “Ogon'!” (Russian for “Fire!”) right before the sound of gunfire.

[@migmit]

@@lusinebaghyan8864It does seem true, according to some soldiers' memoirs, that Russians were committing much more atrocities than other Allies, on average. Not that any nation was completely atrocities-free, of course.

[@victoriagill1588]

I think that All Quiet on the Western Front needs to be your next deep dive into the exposition of extreme nationalism. Certainly because of the outcome of the American election.

[@johnniekight1879]

On my to 5 movies ever.

[@RLucas3000]

I don’t know if you will see this, but please react to the movie 1776, and release it on July 4th! It’s another movie that mixes lots of humor with moments of deadly seriousness.

[@randyparker2134]

There are small amounts of Monarch butterflies in Southern Europe, but probably not in Germany.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

BS

[@scottshaw5271]

Please watch :" The Princess and the Warrior"

[@heathen-heart]

excellent f'n movie!

[@BattleAngelFan99]

Another 2019 movie I recommend is Alita Battle Angel, James Cameron's OTHER long-developed franchise, which he finally found a way to get out there by letting his friend Robert Rodriguez direct. It's one that many haven't seen, because they either haven't heard the title or don't know how good it is.

[@drakedasnakeroberts3165]

It was the moms bike, like the shoes they foreshadowed the bikes 👍

[@richardnanian2446]

No, it’s not the mom’s bike. Her bike had a basket on the front. Taika Waititi himself has confirmed it’s not her bike. Also, Captain K having her bike would be suspicious as hell. The whole pretense he adopts is that he stops there because his own bike had a flat.

[@manueldeabreu1980]

They do screw up the history at the very end of the movie. Due to the agreement with the Soviets, where the Western Allies would stop at the Elba, the Americans never went on to Berlin. The conquest of Berlin was a complete Soviet operation.

[@happygolucky1184]

The movie does not take place in Berlin. The setting is Stadt Falkenheim, a suburb of Nuremberg.

[@rafaelmartins9263]

i thumb down everyone that skips the opening sequence.

[@rdyer8764]

Sorry, I don't want to be nasty, but I want to be critical. You talk too much. If you've seen the movie before, ya gotta shut up. Don't spoil it for others, and let the magic of the movie fall on the newbie. I know it's hard, but even the constant looks to the other guy to see his reaction are too much. Having the discipline to NOT react is very, very hard. So you have to overcome your normal human tendencies, and be a statue. Don't answer questions. Don't provide comments. Really hard, but I think you can do it with conscious effort. Good luck. I hope you're successful.

[@elusiveDEVIANT]

This movie made me question why i watch movies. Script was really dumb, taika is just a complete idiot. Acting was okay, but cant really do much with this material. Almost as bad as love and thunder. The movie that killed the mcu :D

[@davidmichaelson1092]

Many will disagree with you on this. But you are entitled to your opinion. It was a risk to make this movie. Like the classic Mel Brooks movie "The Producers" you take a risk going this route. Not everyone will like it. I personally think this movie is brilliant. Shifting from uncomfortable, serious, and funny so fast it keeps you guessing. But I respect a dissenting view. When a movie deals with a very difficult topic it is going to create many opinions. I disagree with you. But don't let anyone tell you you are wrong in your opinion. It is your honest opinion.

[@elusiveDEVIANT]

@davidmichaelson1092 I just don't find it funny. I think it could have been an interesting movie if all the taika bits were removed. The man's sense of humor is similar to a 12yr Olds. Basic. I'm sure there were parts I liked, but all I can remember is the dumb and dumber esq feeling of the movie. Stuff like that I can't enjoy. I'll never understand that sort of...comedy.

[@davidmichaelson1092]

@@elusiveDEVIANT I can understand where you are coming from. And what I am going to say is not trying to convince you to feel other than you feel. I merely want to present my personal feelings about it. I feel Taika did this intentionally. He wanted to make fun of Nazism to denigrate it (as The Producers did) but he also wanted to portray how a 10 year old boy in Nazi Germany would have envisioned Hitler. So the juvenile humor makes sense in that context. Interestingly normally I would agree with you regarding Dumb and Dumber style of humor. I normally don't like it at all. For me, somehow, it worked in Jojo Rabbit. I will say I think my housemate agrees with you. She and I usually have similar tastes, but in this case she agrees with you and not me. Full respect for your views. I understand them and respect your dissenting viewpoint. For me, I think if it was ONLY the dumb/dumber approach it would not have worked. The Producers could pull that off because it was Mel Brooks, Gene Widler, and Zero Mostel and they can pull anything off. Waititi probably could not have succeeded. But the mixture of the humor and, increasingly as you go along, the horror made it work for me personlly.

[@BattleAngelFan99]

It's hard to see your viewpoint. Dumb and Dumber? Not sure what you mean. I know of that movie and know I didn't like it, but I did like this movie. I do agree with you that Thor Love and Thunder was in many ways a mess. Ragnarok, on the other hand, I liked.

[@MsHGH1]

@@elusiveDEVIANT I actually agree with you, I don’t enjoy Taika Waititi’s humour either - I find it very juvenile. But oddly, since his role in this movie is representing what’s in a 10 year old’s imagination, it’s exactly what makes this work!