‘Jojo Rabbit’
The idea of a war comedy sounds like an oxymoron, but Taika Waititi’s Oscar-winning 2019 film manages to pull it off with a clever, bittersweet satire of WWII Germany. Jojo Rabbit follows Johannes (Roman Griffin Davis), a young boy in the Hitler Youth at the end of WWII who counts Adolf Hitler (Waititi) as his imaginary friend. Johannes lives with his mother, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson), who, unlike her loyal son, quietly defies the Nazi doctrine. When Johannes discovers that Rosie has been hiding a young Jewish girl named Elsa in their home, he begins to question everything he’s learned about Germany and his hero, Hitler.