A Movie On Hitler?

[woschei]

A film that taps the memoirs of Adolf Hitler's secretary for a controversially intimate portrait of the Nazi leader's final days in his Berlin bunker has received a standing ovation at its debut in Germany.

At the gala premiere in Munich on Thursday night, the producer, Bernd Eichinger, said his aim was to avoid simply demonising Hitler. The director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, argued that it was time for a film documenting the Nazis from a German perspective.

"These were people and not robots, not schizophrenic, but people with an incredibly destructive insanity," Eichinger said. "It is part of human nature that we can be monsters as well as do good."

In an interview with the Playboy magazine Ayn Rand said: " Naturalism holds that a writer must be a passive photographer or reporter who must transcribe uncritically whatever he happens to observe around him."

So I am right to say that any "naturalistic" movie on Hitler is bad? Or could it be that naturalism could give us a better understanding of history to some degree and that's why it is legitimate?

[stephen_speicher]

So I am right to say that any "naturalistic" movie on Hitler is bad? Or could it be that naturalism could give us a better understanding of history to some degree and that's why it is legitimate?

The movie is not naturalistic in the sense that it selects to focus on the so-called "human" side of Hitler to the exclusion of his monstrous deeds. But naturalism really refers to the overall style of presentation which for this movie could be naturalistic, or not. Regardless, I understand that the movie, Der Untergang, portrays Hitler in a somewhat sympathetic light, with nary a mention of the Holocaust, and that makes the movie not just "bad," but disgustingly obscene. If you truly want "better understanding of history" then you look at the facts in full context, and there is no context which lessens the horrendous actions of this maniacal creature.

[Capitalism Forever]

A film that taps the memoirs of Adolf Hitler's secretary for a controversially intimate portrait of the Nazi leader's final days in his Berlin bunker has received a standing ovation at its debut in Germany.

At the gala premiere in Munich on Thursday night, the producer, Bernd Eichinger, said his aim was to avoid simply demonising Hitler. The director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, argued that it was time for a film documenting the Nazis from a German perspective.

"These were people and not robots, not schizophrenic, but people with an incredibly destructive insanity," Eichinger said. "It is part of human nature that we can be monsters as well as do good."

Appalling, but not surprising given the sympathy many Germans have been expressing for Palestinian terrorists.