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...combined copies in France, and have won critical acclaim. The story has been translated into German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. The English edition came out in the U.S. last month and in the U.K. last week. Her timing was perfect. "I am part of the 'axis of evil,' you know," she likes...
...controversy is really an extension of a long-standing debate: Does explaining Hitler's evil mean excusing it? In fact, Hitler: The Rise of Evil (May 18 and 20, 9 p.m. E.T.) is far from a glowing portrait. "People said, 'Don't you run the risk of humanizing Hitler?''' says executive producer Peter Sussman. "I don't think that's a risk. We're showing that he walked and lived among us." Sussman did take pains to be sensitive, ordering that all the Nazi uniforms and props be burned after shooting, so none would end up on eBay...
...temptation for an actor fearful of glamorizing Hitler is to play him as either a buffoon or an obvious monster. The first choice trivializes his crimes; the second lets viewers smugly conclude they could never make the same mistake as those evil, stupid Germans. Star Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) avoids both traps. His Hitler is a humorless paranoid whose anti-Jewish rants are laughed off by his comrades in the trenches of WW I. But after the war, he discovers his gift for rabble-rousing. He is an artist of grievance, and in bitter, between-the-wars Germany, that...
...That's not to say that Hitler solves every mystery--it's cagey, for instance, on whether most Germans shared or simply tolerated Hitler's anti-Semitism--or that no viewer might draw the wrong lessons from it. When people say it's risky to try to understand evil, they're right. But it is far more dangerous not to try to understand...
...mindful, of course, that he is not the ideal audience for this movie, being middle-aged and splenetic in nature. It is really meant for much younger guys, equally drawn to kung fu combat and nerdy intellectual musings on the nature of good and evil. On the other hand, he rather liked the first movie in what will soon be The Matrix trilogy. There was something light and dancing about it--especially in the chop-socky fights dizzily enhanced by wire work. Witness chugged off to the new screening with a high and hopeful heart...