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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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Topic - "Downfall:" - tinear 17:55:20 08/12/05 (12)
- I just saw this also and was not going to comment, but... - KT88 13:07:46 08/14/05 (0)
- Re: "Downfall:" - patrickU 01:26:42 08/13/05 (10)
- Is there special "review" or censorship for any depiciton of Hitler in Germany? - mr grits 11:38:16 08/13/05 (9)
- Re: Is there special "review" or censorship for any depiciton of Hitler in Germany? - patrickU 12:23:59 08/13/05 (0)
- Sympathetic? We watched different movies, my copy had him - tinear 11:54:37 08/13/05 (7)
- Ganz put humanity in his eyes in his more private, personal moments . . . - mr grits 21:16:58 08/13/05 (0)
- Re: Hitler was just a low class Mensch--- - patrickU 12:28:24 08/13/05 (5)
- Dictators are almost impossible to kill . . . they are surrounded by fanatics who love them. * - mr grits 21:14:01 08/13/05 (1)
- Re: Dictators are almost impossible to kill . . . they are surrounded by fanatics who love them. * - patrickU 03:05:24 08/14/05 (0)
- Don't start down that road, mon ami...nt - tinear 15:49:48 08/13/05 (2)
- Re: The road to nowhere? - patrickU 03:08:04 08/14/05 (1)
- No, the road leading from Dealey Plaza. nt - tinear 05:34:30 08/14/05 (0)
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