JoJo Rabbit

Director Taika Waititi made a very current film about the nonsense of radicalism. Ideologies based on hatred of some "enemy" are evil, and unfortunately, it is very easy to get infected with them. Especially if you are a 10 year old boy growing up in Nazi Germany. "Jojo Rabbit" can be discouraged if you only read his description. A comedy about Nazism? Hitler as an imaginary friend of a boy? Isn't that a repetition of "IRON SKY."?

Oh, no. "Jojo" follows "Book thief" or "Life is beautiful." The beginning is in the style of a crazy comedy, then the mood calms down a bit, it gets more conventional. Although it can still be funny - Waititi has a talent for composing scenes, the dramatic and action scene can be combined with a comic fragment. Like the one with the hailing Gestapo men, when they search Jojo's house looking for a hiding Jewish woman. It is a scene full of tension, yet funny. The first meeting of Jojo and Elsa, who is hidden by the boy's mother, Rosie (fan-tas-tic Scarlett Johansson), is also fantastically recorded. These shots are like a horror movie! No wonder - after all our hero was told that Jews are monsters. Of course, this ideology will confront reality when Jojo meets a real Jewish woman. It is no secret that friendship will be born between them. And this is what this film is about: about the danger and senselessness of hate-based ideologies, about how bad radicalism and prejudice are. The most important thing is respect for the other person, empathy, love, joy of life. Why is it so difficult to get it into your head?