Jojo Rabbit - An anti-hate masterpiece
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” What happens when you meet someone for the first time and all your beliefs, convictions and ideologies turn upside-down? Well this is the predicament our protagonist Jojo finds himself in. New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi’s 2019 film Jojo Rabbit explores concepts like the perils of racial hatred, the impact of indoctrination on children, and the vagueness of political ideologies using satire and humour in the backdrop of one of the most horrific times in human history. Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), a radicalised 10-year-old Nazi, joins the Youth Hitler sometime during the later stages of the Second World War. A lonely child living with his progressive single mother Rosie (Scarlet Johansen), Jojo has an imaginary friend, a buffoonish version of Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi). Although sidelined and largely ignored by his peer group at the Youth Hitler camp led by Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwel...