[Hitler is back] Er ist Wieder da Director: David Veneidette Starring: Michael Kessler/Oliver Matheki/Steven Grossman Release Date: October 08, 2015
The Germans use their unique political humor to satirize historical figures, but also reflect on the history of the country, and this serious attitude of reproach provides a good model for the current development of the country.
Laughing and laughing will be afraid
Hitler traveled back in time and space to the current Berlin, and this matter was thrown on the shoulders of the people in Germany, what kind of mentality should be used to face it? As a boring joke, or a sobering thought of the past, or a departure from anger. For different people, of course, the answer is also different.
Today's Berlin, in particular, is culturally diverse, which is a great violation of Hitler's original "pursuit." The enrichment and integration of races and cultures is an irresistible trend in Germany and even in Europe as a whole, but even now, it is not something that everyone accepts. For more people, it is not something that can be accepted in every way. Looking at the recent wave of refugees, the contradictions between Greece and the European Union have always pushed Germany to the cusp of the storm.
So Hitler is back at this time, which is the biggest turning point in the whole film. What did he bring? The first is a sense of forgetting, from which the film creates a lot of jokes. A bolt of lightning struck Hitler down, and in uniform he staggered down the streets of Berlin, from the Brandenburg Gate to the side of the street kiosk. Chinese tourists surrounded him to take pictures; the artists next to him thought someone was coming to grab a job bowl; the mother with the child thought the man was a hooligan and sprayed wolf spray without hurrying. As he desperately studied the information in the newspapers, the stall owner treated him like a madman. The second male Savaski took this Hitler as a treasure, also because he felt that this "street artist" was quite a gimmick.
Although the Nazis and Hitler were to some extent a topic that Germany did not want to talk about, there was no resentment when people saw this Hitler appear. In the early parts of the film, almost filled with Hitler's awkward meme of being at odds with the New World, no one is afraid, no one is angry. On the other hand, it also shows that while people accept pluralism, they also cover up the memories of the past. They teased that it was just another clown, because the turbulent times had been gone for too long. It was too difficult to believe that Hitler's threat was around, and the people of the new age seemed to have lost this instinct. Moreover, from the beginning of his appearance, this Hitler wore a mask that was vilified. On the one hand, it creates all the laughter baggage, but also lays the most critical trap of the whole film.
The continuation of the jokes has since left the fuss about Hitler's novelty, but has borrowed Hitler's interesting interpretation of all of Germany. In order to shoot this subject about Hitler's entertainer, the second male Savaski took him around Germany. Talk to the citizens and villagers about the scenery, about the political parties, about Poland that still exists, about immigrants and refugees from abroad, about the prime minister's position where the woman sat. With banter and self-deprecation, Germany has experienced it all these years.
So far, the film has been filmed in a rough way, without exquisitely designed frames and without particularly allegorical shot transitions. In the end, the joke is opened, and people can't be serious inside and outside the play, but this is not serious because the creator intends to do it. On the surface, it looks cheap treatment, compared to the image of Hitler always holding a shelf, there is a special comedic effect. Coupled with the use of some German Chinese and cultural special memes, in terms of the reaction of the German audience in the theater, it works very well. But the laughter interrupted when Hitler shot the dog, and then laughing again was even more bottomless.
Because the audience began to smell gunpowder. Hitler, who was targeted by the program's producers, appeared on television and conquered the audience with silence in his first appearance, including the real audience outside the play. The camera revolves around a close-up of his dignified face, dead silence. He still has the same attitude and the same rhetoric, but at this moment the camera brings the face of the national audience to listen to him seriously, and Hitler and the previous clown are sentenced to two people. He then broke the silence with a uniquely inspired speech about entertainment and the decay of the German spirit. Because it is indeed thought-provoking, the listener is silent, because behind it is Hitler's racist motive, and this style is murderous.
When Hitler frantically captured the media, the video of him shooting and killing his pet dog was leaked, awakening people's memories of Hitler's demonic side. He was banned by everyone, which is not over, the film uses the characteristics of the current media to cleverly carry out a deeper irony. At the end of the film, the conception of the play within a play strengthens the twist of the plot by relying on the structure, and also strengthens the creator's intention to satirize. The neo-Nazis' shift in attitude toward him in the film has heralded the success of his plot, from violent warfare to the battlefield of new media. Hitler began to expand again, and the higher his ratings and the more products he sold, the more he exposed the forgetfulness of today's people. What is forgotten is the goodness and sincerity that allowed humanity to survive, which is being eroded by Hitler's instilled ambitions.
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