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why bother? Nothing new is learned about the Fuhrer. Unlike some here who criticized the film for a "positive" portrayal I saw nothing of the sort: a pathetic, common sort of fellow with delusions. Frankly, I was bored: the film was portrayed through the eyes of his personal secretary but she wasn't given any scenes of note.
The viciousness of Hitler, his inner circle, and many of the SS troops, who continued shooting and hanging their fellow citizens up to the very end, has been shown many times, in many other films.
The film, of course, turns on Ganz's performance. He does bear a remarkable resemblance but he doesn't possess the magnetism we've seen in the "original." That's the failing of many biographies of deceased political characters who are depicted while memory is still fresh of them.
The depiction of Goebbels and his wife's murder of their children, and their suicides, is terrible, but the direction is so flat that it loses what power a strong imagination already had given it.
So, I'd say don't bother with this one. (And the comments of the real life secretary at the end are guaranteed to raise your blood pressure: "I didn't know, I didn't know." Right, pull the other one...).
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since everyone else has seen it and has a view, what the hell. I was really disgusted by it and was put in a weird place where you want to feel sympathy for the characters as they are all dying, yet you know that they were revolting and you would have shot them yourself. What was really sickening for me was the scene where Goebbel's wife killed those children. Knowing what would become of them all really made it a struggle to watch the whole film. I nearly did not. Definately not my favorite film on the story or of that period in history, but truely a unique perspective.
-Bill
Fest ( historian ) who inspired this film has often be in the critic to be " lightly forgetting "as for the nazis.
I found a real good critic on this film.
In the end we both agree that is was a " merde "....
- http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Downfall (Movie)&title2=Downfall (Movie)&reviewer=A. O. Scott&v_id=293961 (Open in New Window)
With specific anti-Nazi laws on books I thought doing much on the subject was highly discouraged. In "Downfall" I found the most sympathetic Nazi to be Hitler himself--the rest were mindless, robot fanatics.
Well it may depends on your very own sensibility. Hitler way too sympathetic in my view and that is what I wrote in my original review.
I saw the long interview of his secretary on the German TV shortly before her death.
She was the nice girl next door.
She did not knew much.
I wonder how good a secretary she was....
They should have hung her.
saying all Germans still alive deserved to die because they were cowards, traitors, and scum---the best and the bravest already had died, he screamed. He specifically shed no tears for the young, women, and elderly---all better off dead to him. The massacre of Goebbels family also met with his approval.
Yeah, a reallllly sympathetic figure.
not during his delusional, psychotic ranting. He seemed to be a man trapped in a roll he created for himself.
And that is also spiritually true. He learnt his " magnetism " with a private teacher.
Why did nobody back then put a bullet through his head?
Why?
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Hitler was lucky to escape the bomb in Munich and later in his bunker another one.
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Which way Tin? In case you mean " low class " you see there are people of " high class" everywhere....In every so called " classes "---
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