Tuesday - March 03, 2020

Headline Pun With Levels Of Innuendo

The cover of today’s NY Daily News, the standard NYC liberal rag, the front page story of how all the other Dem candidates are hopping on the Biden Bus:

This may be really apt in a dark and convoluted manner. There is currently an oddball film out called JoJo Rabbit. It’s about a German boy who joins the Hitler Youth near the end of WWII. He’s such an ardent little Nazi that he creates Adolf Hitler as his imaginary friend. It’s a dark comedy, a coming of age story, and a tale of moral conundrums, as young JoJo has to balance the antisemitism he’s learning at Nazi Camp with the fact that his mother is sheltering a young Jewish Girl in the crawlspaces of their house.

To say that the film is controversial is an understatement. It’s also an emotional whipsaw rollercoaster, taking you from spill-your-popcorn laughter one moment to recoiling in horror the next to terrible crying sadness and back again. I think I might want to see this, even if it does turn out to be super weird; the performances by most of the cast are said to be superb.

So just what is the Daily News trying to say? Sure, sure, NY papers go to extremes to find wretched puns for their front pages, and sometimes they (subconsciously?) hit the bullseye more than intended. Biden seems confused a lot of the time. So is JoJo. Biden has moved really far left in the past year. At the far edge of the leftist horizon, beyond “regular” Socialism but just before tyrannical slave masters and rabid Communists, are the Nazis. The original of those national democratic socialist workers parties, with their Brown Shirts and Antifa folks, etc.

[ review of the film ] a tale of a young Hitler-loving German boy struggling to maintain his allegiance in the latter stages of WWII sounds like a potentially disastrous idea. Actually, though, it turns out to be a masterstroke, as Waititi’s eye for the absurd and sharp understanding of a child’s perspective finds light and humanity amid even mankind’s darkest moments.

What’s more, far from trivializing the horror of the time, the playful, sometimes laugh-out-loud tone that underpins much of the film makes its tough moments all the more gut-wrenching, while Waititi’s strident reminder that so much evil and hatred was able to come from what ultimately boils down to almost childish stupidity resonates way beyond the final credits.

Wow, that seems like one helluva endorsement doesn’t it? “Everybody line up behind der Furor. Ready to fight Bolshie Bernie? Forward March! “ ... until this latest furor changes his allegiance or forgets about his imaginary friends??

Posted by Drew458     on 03/03/2020 at 12:20 PM   
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