The first half of the film is a bit slow. It spends quite a time establishing how Hitler would react to the world he doesn't know and, in turn, how people would react to someone who dressed exactly like him; but the way it's done is a bit dragging, with a frequent pun jokes and some historical accuracy flops (Hitler should have known what happened to Ottoman Turkey, and Hitler didn't co-found DAP).
It raises the main question after all that though: what if Hitler really came back to our world? The filmmakers "test" this hypothesis by filming the film with real Berliners, with varying reaction seeing someone posing as Hitler: some being outright disgusted, some laughed, some others easily do the Nazi salute. Rising as a television star in the film's world, "TV Hitler"'s speech became a farce to a number audience, but some others really do believe in what he's saying. Then, in the ultimate scene, Hitler's speech actually made me rethink the question the film asked. "Am I [a monster]?" Hitler asked, "Then, you must also condemn who elected this monster. Were they all monsters?" Pointing finger to one figure makes us ignore the problem that was inside the zeitgeist at the time. If there were no Hitler, there would be another in his position. The film then ends with shots that give us a slap to our face.
Were it not for the slow first half, this would easily be in my favorite.
Review by Pradipa PRBlockedParent2017-07-23T13:26:23Z
The first half of the film is a bit slow. It spends quite a time establishing how Hitler would react to the world he doesn't know and, in turn, how people would react to someone who dressed exactly like him; but the way it's done is a bit dragging, with a frequent pun jokes and some historical accuracy flops (Hitler should have known what happened to Ottoman Turkey, and Hitler didn't co-found DAP).
It raises the main question after all that though: what if Hitler really came back to our world? The filmmakers "test" this hypothesis by filming the film with real Berliners, with varying reaction seeing someone posing as Hitler: some being outright disgusted, some laughed, some others easily do the Nazi salute. Rising as a television star in the film's world, "TV Hitler"'s speech became a farce to a number audience, but some others really do believe in what he's saying. Then, in the ultimate scene, Hitler's speech actually made me rethink the question the film asked. "Am I [a monster]?" Hitler asked, "Then, you must also condemn who elected this monster. Were they all monsters?" Pointing finger to one figure makes us ignore the problem that was inside the zeitgeist at the time. If there were no Hitler, there would be another in his position. The film then ends with shots that give us a slap to our face.
Were it not for the slow first half, this would easily be in my favorite.