{"id":16359,"date":"2020-08-12T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16359"},"modified":"2020-08-12T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T23:45:05","slug":"jojo-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/jojo-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jojo Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Our only friends are the Japanese. And just between you and me, they don&#8217;t look very Aryan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jojo Rabbit<\/strong>, released in 2019<\/p>\n<p>Jojo is very enthusiastic about being a member of Hitler&#8217;s youth. When he&#8217;s at a camp for the weekend, though, they ask him to kill a rabbit and he can&#8217;t. Then in a bout of regrettable enthusiasm he accidentally blows up a grenade near his face. Jojo has an invisible friend, Adolf Hitler. Back at home he discovers a hidden door &#8212; and behind it is, unbelievably, a Jewish girl.<\/p>\n<p>If you think a movie about World War II is allowed to be serious and funny, like <strong>Life is Beautiful<\/strong>, then you&#8217;ll like it. In fact, you&#8217;ll love it &#8212; because it&#8217;s brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the terribleness of war, and the joyousness of friendship. It&#8217;s about the ridiculousness of Nazis, and the reasonableness of the resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Young actors Roman Griffin Davis and Thomasin McKenzie do a terrific job.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Taika Waititi (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hunt-for-the-wilderpeople\/\"><strong>Hunt for the Wilderpeople<\/strong><\/a>). The soundtrack contains some German versions of popular songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Our only friends are the Japanese. And just between you and me, they don&#8217;t look very Aryan.&#8221; Jojo Rabbit, released in 2019 Jojo is very enthusiastic about being a member of Hitler&#8217;s youth. When he&#8217;s at a camp for the weekend, though, they ask him to kill a rabbit and he can&#8217;t. Then in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-16359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16377,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions\/16377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}