JoJo Rabbit
Mar. 21st, 2020 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherI originally had a mostly-positive feeling about JoJo Rabbit, but something niggled in the back of my mind, something that told me I couldn't recommend this film to others, even though I could not articulate why.
I went looking for looking for criticisms to see if someone else could tell me why I felt this way. I found this article at the New Yorker:
Springtime for Nazis: How the Satire of JoJo Rabbit Backfires. This article includes a basic summary of the first part of the film.
Satire is very difficult. One thing that can happen when you have likeable actors such as Sam Rockwell playing villains, is that you elicit sympathy for your villains. And then Sam Rockwell's character acts in sympathetic ways, and saves the main character, and you are basically encouraging identification with that character.
Taika Waititi does such an excellent job lampooning vampires in "What we do in the shadows," but: vampires aren't real.
I went looking for looking for criticisms to see if someone else could tell me why I felt this way. I found this article at the New Yorker:
Springtime for Nazis: How the Satire of JoJo Rabbit Backfires. This article includes a basic summary of the first part of the film.
Satire is very difficult. One thing that can happen when you have likeable actors such as Sam Rockwell playing villains, is that you elicit sympathy for your villains. And then Sam Rockwell's character acts in sympathetic ways, and saves the main character, and you are basically encouraging identification with that character.
Taika Waititi does such an excellent job lampooning vampires in "What we do in the shadows," but: vampires aren't real.
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Date: 2020-03-22 07:36 pm (UTC)