JOJO RABBIT

Hey "Kill anything that's different" except yourself and who decides?

A film tackles tragi-comedy of how a boy JoJo is swept up into real life waters of the training of war heroes/criminals by brain wash propaganda.
Nothing makes sense.
A dynamic presentation of horrible absurdities of extreme ugly truths and beautiful lies.

His playing field is the ending days of WW2 /
the backdrop of the perplexing psychological emotional ride of who is right, and what is right, and who and what is wrong.
How can a child exist and navigate this?
All throughout war history, children manage, cope, survive, live to tell their story.
This is JoJo's story,
and
His Vision is a collage amalgamation of what could be numerous experiences by many youths as one person.

Like all films, they are a man-made artist's vision, this no less is a conglomeration of visions, narrative, stories presented as one vision.

Director Waititi was not around so this is his version of his research
of what others have said and plus what was written in the novel "Caging Skies by Christine Leunens. ~ [ Hogan's Heroes the television serial, and Springtime for Hitler of Mel Brook's Film turned Broadway Hit "The Producers" are the heavy tangential referenced predecessors of this nincompoop comic war film genre.
And to be a frank, wartimes do not cause people to lose their humor / only maybe suppression and even concentrates it...but a fly in the ointment would be, could one 50 years from now have these same themes approached around fresh atrocities like 911, Hiroshima, Rwanda...

for sure,
long time gaps create fertile ground for the mindset to tackle this,
and future contemporaries with no doubt will be having political incorrectness talk-ins
regarding them ].

In This Film:
Ignorance, humour, satire, pretense, absurdity, mother's love, friendship love are the pillars buttresses which keep JoJo and His World from caving in and swallowing him up, though it's suffocating.

The writing mixes complex tragic humour to always look on the bright side.
Like a laughing cry or a crying laugh. But it is no flippant lemonade-making.

The acting is committed and earnest and believeable.
This is a very strong brew because war is never irreverential.
Similarly we can laugh at the families' antics and nature of a feud like the Hatfield and the McCoy
but not at the feud and its carnage.

At the end of the day: All are victims of war eventually. No matter the winners.

The effects of it remain.
The atomic radiation and the results of ethnic cleansing are the outcome.

Great loss and gain are inevitable, and those too are JoJo's effects.

You can't guard the world against the darkness vileness of humans against humans,
like ants invading ants, hyenas and lions,natural resource fights go back to time immemorial.

The Mahabharata, the epic true history of War in Ancient India...yes, it is true,
when you see the size of it and know it was orally transmitted for thousands of years bc if its value,
no priest of that time would waste time to memorize garbage. It's counter culture.

So War it seems will always be a human thing to do to pass time.

The great aspect of this film, we always hear statistics like 20 million Chinese died due to Japan's Invasion,
the great aspect is that a personal face individualizes the event and brings it us to experience.

JoJo does this.
And in hopes,
it can help rid us humans war-itis.

Who should see this.
All ages. Why?!

"Less history keeps repeating itself" over and over again.

The unfortunately prophetic mantra that needs no proof