"Look Who's Back"

BanzaiCat · April 16, 2016, 09:14:11 PM

I'm...just...um...going to lay this down here, and let y'all have fun.

Oh...and it's on Netflix, btw.

Staggerwing · April 17, 2016, 05:39:30 AM

wow

mirth · April 17, 2016, 07:00:34 AM

Does Putin know that he's back?

Arctic Blast · April 17, 2016, 04:58:38 PM

I'm confused. Is this like a Borat type of thing, where this guy wanders around pretending to be Hitler to get reactions?

Michael Dorosh · April 17, 2016, 05:37:14 PM

Quote from: Arctic Blast on April 17, 2016, 04:58:38 PM
I'm confused. Is this like a Borat type of thing, where this guy wanders around pretending to be Hitler to get reactions?

No. It's based on the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Who's_Back

BanzaiCat · April 17, 2016, 08:23:19 PM

Initially I thought exactly that, AB - that it was a Borat thing. I imagine it smacks of it at times. For example, at the beginning, he wakes up (I won't tell you how, but I laughed), and wanders around to the Brandenburg Gate. There were a lot of people with their phones out filming him as he staggered around in his Hitler overcoat and uniform. With the cameras around him I imagine they knew what was up, but the thing that got me was that his uniform was pretty dead on all the way down to the swastikas in the wreath that the stylized eagle is clutching.

I thought surely they had to have jumped through some government hoops to get permission to do that in public.

Some of the round-table discussions felt like they were done by people that were not actors. Some of the dirty looks 'Hitler' got were definitely NOT acts...there were some pissed people looking on. Still...the fact that this book was such a bestseller, and this comes out at a time when a lot of people are sick of the immigration...it's not really a total surprise that this is so popular.

I've not seen all of it - it's fairly long - and it's...well, it's very funny, but VERY disturbing as well, considering that it might well be possible that this is the environment that would be created in the wake of a Hitler reincarnation/awakening.

I'm taking it at face value, as a weird comedy. It's definitely entertaining and my hat's off to the Germans for having the huevos to do something like this.

GDS_Starfury · April 18, 2016, 10:02:19 AM

I watching it now.
so far I'd give it 3 out of 5 Star of Davids.

GDS_Starfury · April 18, 2016, 11:04:00 PM

I found it to be a cautionary story overall. it definitely strikes a chord with the people involved with the discussions and the points made strike home.

BanzaiCat · April 19, 2016, 06:35:56 AM

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 18, 2016, 11:04:00 PM
it definitely strikes a chord with the people involved with the discussions and the points made strike home.

This, yeah. Starts as a comedy and becomes something disturbing the closer to the end it gets. The ending was not entirely expected (finally power came back last night and I had a chance to finish watching it in fits and starts). I want to read the book now.