PaganMoralist

I watched this movie recently and I had a few thoughts on it.

First, the visuals of a burned out Berlin were very good and looked amazing. You were transported back into that moment with the depiction of the Reich capital in tatters. I thought it looked great.

The actor that portrayed Hitler. Initially(first few scenes) I didnt think he was a good representation but as the movie progressed, not only did he look exactly like him, but he had all the mannerismsa and idiosyncrasies as described by various authors in Hitlers last days. I was very impressed and thought he was masterful in the role.


Now the problems I had with the movie.


The movie seemed to depict the Germans in a sympathetic light. For example the Doctor(Ernst Gunter Schenk) that sticks around to assist was a doctor at Dachau and experimented on hundreds of concentration camp prisoners, many of whom died. In this depiction he is a sympathetic figure that just happens to be an SS doctor.

SS Brigadefuhrer Monkne is merely depicted as another SS officer caught in a bad situation. He is presented in a sympathetic light. The man was implicated in numerous atrocities but in this movie we are supposed to feel sorry for him. Yeah, okay.


And the final complaint. Hitlers secretary. The final line she gives what would be the standard German response in order to alleviate them of any guilt. "How could we know?" She was only Hitlers secretary and heard him rail against the Jews consistently. She lived in Germany and saw Jews being deprived of every Earthly possession and then forced to move. What did she think was going on? What did everyone else think was going on? No one noticed any of this?


Such lies from the average German. They knew something sinister was going on, they knew and they instead blamed the SS.


The movie lends a certain credence to this reasoning and I found it distasteful.

I finally saw Gran Torino. Terrible acting, dumb plot line, moronic dialogue, stupid ending.

Just a god awful film. Not Transformers Revenge of the Fallen bad(nothing is that bad) but terrible nonetheless.

Yeah, its going to be a long off season with the bitter taste of a double digit defeat at the hands of Utah.


Plus Bama will probably have a down year next year.



Good luck with that.

Nothing is worse than Brotherhood of the Wolf.

OSU is a fkn disgrace.

Once Were Warriors is a foreign film right?


Loved that movie.

Wildcat, can you post a link to the thread that caused your complete mental collapse because of something I posted?


Thanks.

Good thing for LSU that Oregon Sts kicker missed 3 xtra points so they can mock losing to Oregon St because they beat by a point at home.


Thats good.

Arent they supposed to have 4 OOC games?

Whats their OOC schedule look like? Looks like they get most of thier difficult in conference games at home.

Guess if the media was really so in love with USC they wouldve ranked ahead of Bama.


So much for that myth.


Thanks lsumatt.