Is Jojo Rabbit Really Taika Waititi's Most Disliked Film?
Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit was well-received by critics and audiences alike, but three years since its release, the satirical war drama has encounterd quite a backlash on social media. The subject matter of the movie, which pokes fun at one of history's darkest figures, Adolf Hitler, concerns sensitive topics and so naturally would not be to the liking of everyone. Recently, though, a Twitter storm erupted against Jojo Rabbit, with some people claiming the movie is pro-Nazi and that Waititi's happy-go-lucky take on World War II and the Holocaust is inappropriate, while its defenders argue that the opposite is true.
The inspiration for Jojo Rabbit came to Waititi from the comparatively bleak 2008 novel Caging Skies, whichtells of the Nazis' defeat at the end of World War II from the perspective of Johannes, a 12-year-old member of the Hitler Youth. He is forced to question his beliefs and loyalty to the German leader when he discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl, Elsa, in their house. In its focus on the complicated coming-of-age aspects of the story, the movie version purposely takes a lighter approach to dark topics, including Nazism, antisemitism, wartime bravery, and propaganda.
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Waititi, a Polynesian Jew, adapted Caging Skies in order to tell a tragic war story from an optimistic, innocent young boy's point of view. Despite its apparent success in 2019, Jojo Rabbit has divided audiences given the taboo nature of the material. But with the filmmaker's intentions being misinterpreted by its detractors, is Jojo Rabbit reallyTaika Waititi's most disliked film?
Upon release, Jojo Rabbit'sreviews were mostly positive, and many
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