Taika Waititi: Caging Skies By Christine Leunen

Taika Waititi is a creative genius with all sorts of hands in screenwriting, filmmaking, producing, directing and acting, which can all be seen by him in his movie “Jojo Rabbit”. The movie is based on a description of a book Taika heard from his mother entitled Caging Skies by Christine Leunen. The movie focuses on the challenging, torturous World War II in Nazi Germany and is centered on a little boy wanting nothing but to become just like his idol, Hitler. But becoming does not mean growing up. Growing up takes too much time and now is prime time to kill Jews alongside Hitler, so little JoJo is really just an adult Nazis in a little boy's body if he’s being honest. The movie shows the Holocaust from an unsuspected perspective and unlike other

For the time being, it is him and his mother living in a cozy home in Nazi Germany and JoJo is off to a camp to train to become a Nazi soldier and fight in the war. Though, after a hand-grenade accident at the camp involving JoJo, he is sent back home with scars on his face and an aching soul. His hard-headed mother, Rosie Betzler, doesn’t let his dreams of becoming a Nazi diminish when JoJo gets bullied for his looks. With her strong personality, she gets Captain Klenzendorf, war veteran and former head of the Nazi camp, to make JoJo feel as included as the other little Nazi boys. Soon, JoJo discovers a secret regarding his mother and the last thing he would want to find in his home. He has to continue life with this uncomfortable secret weighing on him and it challenges his morals

A similar cinematography feel to movies such as “Midsommar” and “Call me by Your Name”. The music featured is modern as well, with songs from the Beatles and David Bowie which conducts familiar feelings within the audience related to happy summer days. It’s strange how music, vibrant scenes, and humor can cover even the solemnest of topics. Waititi is able to shield the main topic of the Holocaust with these techniques and make the audience feel as oblivious as JoJo to the whole situation happening around him. It was a bold create a movie based on a book about the Holocaust and then want to make it funny but JoJo’s character development is what I believe made that