In 2015, Look Who's Back, a feature film by German director David Wnendt based on a satirical novel of the same title, took Germany by storm. The premise is that Hitler has been transported to the year 2014 and ends up writing a book about his experiences, which is eventually turned into a movie, titled Look Who's Back. Next-level meta, obviously.
However, the movie-of-a-book-within-a-movie-of-a-book mindfuck doesn't by any means define Mr. Wnendt's very exciting film. Rather, Look Who's Back skips between clownish physical comedy, dark satire, experimental film, and serious social and political commentary. Happily for the viewer, it doesn't sit for too long in any of these, keeping us on our toes until the end, when the serious concern starts to seep in, especially considering the popularity of one father to Ms. Ivanka Trump in this country. My drama teacher at school used to talk about the "serious laugh", in which the playwright would make the audience laugh in order to open their mouths, and into the gaping holes slip a serious message. At the time, this seemed to me to be a pretty gross and somewhat phallic metaphor, but that is exactly what this film does so well. It's on Netflix, so there's literally no excuse not to watch this alternately delightful and terrifying piece of cinema.
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