I saw it on monday, and I can not understand why in your towns nobody was laughing. There are lots of scenes that are simply so amazing, you can't do anything else but laugh. And in our cinema the audience was from teenagers to a few people which I think to be aged around 55, 60. They where seated next to us, and they where laughing as well.
The matter is just that the film is sometimes hilarious, you just have to laugh. But the next minute it becomes dramatical and serious, and that's the mistake Levi made. The film is, as we say it in Northern germany, "neither meat nore fish"!
Is ist a satire?
No, it's way too melodramatic to be a real satire.
Is it a drama?
No, it's way too funny for a drama.
What is it?
I don't know....
About the controversities that aroused in the media, like "is it allowed to laugh about the 3rd Reich and a man who has caused millions of people's death?
Of course it's very much bad taste, but I think it's really time to finally laugh about it.
a: because my generation has nothing to do with what happened 65 years ago, but should still be remembered about it, and
b: because I've been talking to my Grandma about it. She's 82 years old, has witnessed the war, has been bombed out of her home and has seen the destruction of huge parts of her home city Bremen.
And you know what she said?
"Of course you can make fun of Hitler, he was a weird man. When we were kids in the middle of the war, we constantly made jokes about him!"
"Das mit der Endlösung dürfen sie nicht zu persönlich nehmen, Herr Professor...."
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"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster!"
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