Act like a lady, completely fuck up like a man.

Care to elaborate? What were you trying to do, then? Because phrases like “How you choose to reconcile your country’s legacy of systematic murder of six million souls is totally up to you. Looks like part of your process is a zany 90-minute comedy where Hitler wakes up from his bunker in modern day Berlin and tries to…

EXACTLY. the article in the Guardian she cites makes the true purpose of the movie clear. I don’t think she even read it other than the quote she used, which by the way, was not the director’s full quote included in the Guardian. She took it completely out of context. Really annoying.

Seriously though, this whole article is so badly misinformed that I don’t even know where to start, from the wrongly translated quote to the wrongly summarised intentions of this satirical movie right down to using a video clip with completely false subtitles, this whole thing is truly maddening. Now I know how Asian…

Thank you!!!! I’m not German - but if there’s a country that has bloody atoned for their past, that is Germany. And they’re still doing it - look at the refugee crisis. It’s quite vile to suggest that this movie is wrong, especially from an American - a country that has committed so many atrocities and hasn’t bothered…

Only of course Germany is probably the only country who did think about what elements of their culture allowed for atrocities to take place and the only country to openly and continuously condemn their past. For fucks sake, up until the World Cup in 2006 Germans were even uncomfortable waving their flags for fear of…

Have you been to Germany? That’s about all they do. There’s an enormous amount of discussion of the past and their unfettered guilt for it. And how to reconcile it with the present. You literally can’t walk 10 minutes in Berlin without physically encountering it. Just because we only see a couple glimpses of it here…

Exactly. Not only that - but arguably Germany is pretty much the only country I can think of, who has taken full responsibility for the atrocities they’ve committed. There’s no attempt to excuse it, there’s no revisionism, nothing - it’s illegal to deny the holocaust, and from an early age they’re taught about it in…

The quote you use above about viewing Hitler as an object of humor rather than as a monster means, for me, that as long as he is characterized as an anomaly (i.e. a unique monster), we can distance ourselves from the fact that he was human like anyone else, and thus we can convince ourselves that it takes a unique…

Well as a german, who has actually seen this movie I have to say, that (imho) it’s actually not downplaying Hitler or the Nazis in any way. Yes, its a comedy, but when you watch it, your laughter gets stuck in your throat. It’s more of a comedic way of showing, that Hitler or better his ideology is in fact not dead…

This looks awesome. Germany has owned this terrible history and taught it in their schools to make sure it never happens again. Germany has done a better job than most countries, really. America hasn’t taught and owned the terrible history of slavery and native genocide with the completeness that Germany has.

These posts wherein American writers are befuddled by the humor of other countries are kind of embarrassing. Atonement for the Holocaust is practically culturally enshrined in Germany at this point, as far as I know (please chime in to correct me, German friends). This is absurdist and not making light of the…

how you choose to reconcile your country’s legacy of systemic murder...is totally up to you.

We live in a world where the Israeli PM hates Muslims SO MUCH that he’s willing to blame them for steering Hitler toward Holocaust.

I know, friend... there’ll never be another Jack Layton. Also Olivia Chow lost Spadina-Fort York and Bill Blair (DIRTY PIG COP) fucking WON Scarborough. Then again, all of Rich Ontario voted Conservative as evidenced by the big maps last night on the tv and I’m not surprised, I’ll just be stopping at the liquor store…

Can we clear something up? Given that Canada has a parliament system, nobody actually voted for Trudeau. They voted for the Liberal party MP candidate in their district. The Liberal party won enough seats to secure a majority in the House of Commons, the party has already selected Trudeau as its political leader, and…

Liberal by American standards. By Canadian standards, he’s pretty centrist.

it involves free healthcare, a solid environmental policy, and winter boots that don’t leak.

That’s it I’m moving to Norway! Just to be clear Trudeau and the Liberals won because of strategic voting, because it was Anyone But Harper/Conservatives. Because he is young and attractive and because people voted for the Canadian dream he was representing. Not because anyone understood or became familiar with the…

My family is Canadian, so I can speak with some authority: Justin is a very common name in Canada.