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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Chilling" data-source="post: 434470" data-attributes="member: 33"><p><strong>Nuremberg (2025)</strong></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58146[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Wow, just wow! What an incredible film this is. I was prompted to watch this because Michelle Lee was waxing lyrically about Russell Crowe's performance in the film on her <em>We're Knot Done Yet</em> podcast so I thought I would check out what she was so impressed by. Russell Crowe is indeed very good in it. He plays Hermann Goring, second in command in Nazi Germany's leadership at the end of World War II in the months leading up to his trial for war crimes. He plays Goring is not as a cartoonish villain, but a master manipulator: charming, erudite and dangerously narcissistic. However, he's not the only one who puts in an outstanding performance as Remi Malik playing the psychiatrist assigned to Goring, is just as compelling.</p><p></p><p>It’s impossible to watch this movie without seeing the glaring parallels to Trump’s America. Crowe’s Goring uses the exact same playbook we see on the news every day: the "witch hunt" narrative, the constant whataboutism and that cult of personality that treats every legal consequence as a personal badge of honour. As Remi Malek's character said in the film "Goring only cares about Goring", something which is often said about the current POTUS. It’s a chilling reminder that the rhetoric used to tear a country apart in the 1940s hasn't really changed, it’s just been rebranded and sprayed orange for a 24-hour news cycle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Chilling, post: 434470, member: 33"] [B]Nuremberg (2025)[/B] [ATTACH type="full"]58146[/ATTACH] Wow, just wow! What an incredible film this is. I was prompted to watch this because Michelle Lee was waxing lyrically about Russell Crowe's performance in the film on her [I]We're Knot Done Yet[/I] podcast so I thought I would check out what she was so impressed by. Russell Crowe is indeed very good in it. He plays Hermann Goring, second in command in Nazi Germany's leadership at the end of World War II in the months leading up to his trial for war crimes. He plays Goring is not as a cartoonish villain, but a master manipulator: charming, erudite and dangerously narcissistic. However, he's not the only one who puts in an outstanding performance as Remi Malik playing the psychiatrist assigned to Goring, is just as compelling. It’s impossible to watch this movie without seeing the glaring parallels to Trump’s America. Crowe’s Goring uses the exact same playbook we see on the news every day: the "witch hunt" narrative, the constant whataboutism and that cult of personality that treats every legal consequence as a personal badge of honour. As Remi Malek's character said in the film "Goring only cares about Goring", something which is often said about the current POTUS. It’s a chilling reminder that the rhetoric used to tear a country apart in the 1940s hasn't really changed, it’s just been rebranded and sprayed orange for a 24-hour news cycle. [/QUOTE]
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