Over the years, the dictator has appeared as a flamboyant Broadway actor, a time traveler disgusted by reality TV and a unicorn-eating figment of a German boy’s imagination
Combining a tragedy of this proportion with humor, even if it is satirical, is a precarious tightrope walk that director Taika Waititi performs with panache
By being a conqueror disguised as a clown, Jojo Rabbit becomes a film of our times. Those who choose to be offended by its ‘trivialization’ of Nazi Germany are, in effect, admitting that they are uncomfortable to look in the mirror every morning.