Hiters Anti-Semitism
Why was Hitler hanging around with Max when he was clearly very Anti-semitic? Was it because he felt connected to him as they were both WW1 Veterans?
shareThat, and the fact that obviously Max knew that Hitler had some sort of special artistic 'flair' to his underdeveloped abilities as a painter, or perhaps an architect of sorts.
Max persisted and wanted to breathe out Hitler's artistry through venting his frustration and horror of the trenches and "hurl it onto the canvas". He was smart enough to realize that with all of the growing political intrigue and propaganda; Hitler would've locomoted his medium of expression through Public Speaking and Social Engineering rather than through painting or architecture.
Max still had a deep seed of hope for the young man, he had a gist that Hitler was gradually stepping towards the road we all came to know. But he still felt his passion and artistic essence that could be channeled positively rather than negatively. Also add in the fact as you said that they were both soldiers of sorts. There was this intangible, yet present, unruly bond between them as former servicemen. Where one lends a hand for another in times of strife or combat. Kind of like a silent code of honor in that respect if you get what I mean.
In the end though, Max would've had to die because only then does the path finally come to its natural finality. And we all know how that path came to be.
Depressing film, if you ask me.
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I Think you're right.
Max struck me as a broken man, a man who wanted to try and save Hitler out of pity, pity that came from a shared nightmare in World War One.
I agree that its a depressing film but its one of my Favorite's. Though everyone says I am a misery guts so maybe I like it because Its Depressing!
history is a battle fought by a great evil,struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness