disclaimer: i'm trying to write down all my reviews after a long time. my memory of things might be shoddy.
genuinely felt like wes anderson directed this movie, or at least influenced its making. this movie does a good job in exploring the impressionable mind of a young kid and how they're more likely to fall for nationalist propoganda and hero worship of fascist dictators because they don't know any better. watching this movie coincided pretty nicely with the lessons about WW2 in my history class at uni and after hearing my professor say that most of hitler's supporters were young people, i couldn't help but connect it to this movie and see just how much propoganda affected hitler's favour in germany. but i was kinda disappointed w the butterfly scene coz i expected more out of it... my fault. scarlett johansson was amazing. and the gays were funny yet tragic. the last scene where one of them gets jojo out of the american soldiers' hands before getting shot was genuinely sad. also yorki is such a cinnamon bun. we need to protect yorki. i hope jojo and yorki will always be friends.
