I gotta get out more or what??

It's true that Hitler was a failed artist, but I think that most, if not all, of the rest is the poetic license of the director.

"so...tempt her. Win her. Make her one of us."

On its own merit, this movie is tolerable. Technically it is well made and the acting is fairly good. But historically speaking, it is almost entirely inaccurate. Much of the chronology is way off and there are many half truths and suspect omissions. For example, Hitler is shown as a poor, starving artist after the war. Untrue. He made an honest wage and had modest accommodations as a corporal in the army, serving in various pseudo-political functions. After the war Hitler made little to no effort to rekindle his former art career, if you could even call it a career to begin with. What professional effort he did make was feeble and directed towards traditional architecture, not modern art. Also, the film shows Hitler as a blathering lunatic when he makes political speeches to an often uninterested audience. This is untrue. Hitler was almost immediately respected by right wing party officials and followers. He quickly gained a reputation as an excellent and legitimate political speaker. Also, the character Max Rothman is totally fabricated. While there were undoubtedly many art dealers in post-war Munich that were similar to him, none were known to have associated with Hitler at that late date. And the idea that Hitler reached his violently anti-Semitic world-view through an unsatisfying relationship with a Jewish art dealer is absurd. The issue was far more engrained and complex than that. Hitler’s actions in the film are portrayed in an intentionally misleading way. Or his actions are completely falsified or omitted. The overall point of the film is not totally worthless though. I can see what the creators were going for. They wanted to show how Hitler ultimately channeled his disappointment and eccentricity into politics instead of art. And that it would have been better for everyone involved if he had been able to redirect his passion into some kind of an art form. I felt like they wanted to warn people of the dangers that emerge when a society losses touch with art and expression and turns to scapegoating and highly emotional politics. But these messages could have been conveyed in a more historically accurate and respectable way. Overall I give the movie a C+.



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