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Release Date: 20 May, 2003 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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Dumb & dumber
This sophomoric little movie is not to be believed. Where to start? It has its art history wrong. It has its politics wrong. It has its psychology wrong. And yet it repeatedly trumpets its silly message loudly in almost every line of dialog: All Hitler needed was a good therapist & some positive reinforcement. Unh-hunh.
It even has its idiom wrong. An intellectual German in 1918 saying "I gave at the office" (referring sarcastically to his amputated arm) or "Listen Hitler, the train has left the station" sounds more like John Cusack doing his Grifters shtick than a 1918 upper-middle class art dealer. And his character calling everything "kitsch" (as in "camp") - smacks of 1980s art or interior style mag language.
Noah Taylor, the actor playing young Hitler, looks like Iggy Pop doing David Bowie or vice versa. Or both channeling Klaus Kinski. (We get the message: AH was a monster.) In some scenes he sports a germanic accent. In others, such as Hitler's first public speech (one of the few incidents in this travesty to be based on a true event) he turns into a limey. Great.
The greatest travesty has to be Rothman telling Hitler that he must learn to put his feelings on canvas, like Max Ernst does. Good grief! Max Ernst's genius reduced to psychobabble.
I can't give this folly any more time. 0 out of 5 *s.
Disturbing film and not for the expected reasons
Yes, it is about Hitler and his Germany, yes it is about hatred and violence and about power directed.
This is not a pretty film, but there is poetry in the anger, grace in the mourning, and understanding and almost compassion in the idea that the artist frustrated is the leader we regret following.
The performances are subtle and well textured. Nothing is too heavily peddled, although how can we not know what is coming??
It is well worth watching.
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