Jojo Rabbit Review (spoilers)

There are spoilers ahead.

Recorded August 16, 2020

Show notes:

-David Bowie’s Heroes

-Movies/shows with music from a different time

-Why I love music and movies

-Rollercoaster of feelings

-Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going 
No feeling is final

-The plot

-Experiencing different emotions at the same time

-Horror and laughter

-How Taika Waititi used Hitler

-Subject matter

-Roman Griffin Davis

-Yorki

-Quentin Tarantino and the auteur

-Taika Watiti

-Thor Ragnarok

-What We Do In the Shadows

-Watiti's filmography

-Mandalorian

-Captain Klenzendorf and Finkel

-Humanity 

-Jojo and his mother

-Scarlet Johannsen

-Comedy, Gestapo, and evil

-Tying shoes

-What's next

-Lies about Jewish people

-Conspiracy theories 

-Laughing at the ridiculousness 

-Expertise vs. authority

-Trump

-Happiness, fear, anger

-Strength of words, propaganda and stories

-Escape from Sobibor

A Tangent

-My Jewish family 

-Governments rising to power using scapegoats

-How to prevent authoritarianism by learning how it's done and speaking out right away (even if it's not happening to you)

-Organize and vote

-Even if it's too late...

-Horror, Joy, Solidarity

-Always keep going

-Learning how government and civics work

-Push back with all your might

-Long Island, undocumented immigrants, and knowing their rights

-Knowing, fighting, recognizing

-Defunding the post office

-On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

-Read credible sources of history

-Incremental change
Back to Jojo Rabbit

-Serious message cloaked in comedy

-Get your news from credible sources (New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, NPR, BBC, etc.)

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