![]() ![]() Nearly all the colours are autumnal, or wintry - brown, khaki, green, blue, black, white. This is reflected in the retro lighting and colours of the film. The Third Reich was past the high summer of its success - 1940 - and was now entering the autumn of its years. The movie is set in the late summer, autumn and winter of 1942. He gets inside Friedrich's mind and changes the way the young boxer thinks about the Napola and the Nazis. He's also the conscience of the film - the moral centre. For example, it took me time to realise that Albrecht is not only Friedrich's friend. Things are hinted at and not spelt out and it's possible to miss them on first viewing. Sometimes there are few, or no words at all as he lets the pictures tell the story. Gansel avoids the mistake of overloading his movie with dialogue. Napola is a subtle and multi-layered film that deserves repeated viewings. ![]() He is now - he thinks - part of the elite. Overjoyed, he goes down to the assembly hall and finds himself surrounded by dozens of cadets all wearing black designer uniforms. A key moment in the film is when Friedrich first puts on his black designer uniform - complete with a so-called 'dagger of honour' worn on the left hip - and stares at himself proudly in a mirror. It changed the way people looked, felt and acted. The firm also designed the black uniforms of the SS! Nazi Germany was a country in uniform. The black uniforms we see the Napola boys wearing were designed in the 1930s by a German fashion house that still exists - Hugo Boss. Many young Germans found them irresistible. Even today their ceremonies, festivals, rallies, buildings, cars, fighting machines and uniforms excite awe. When it came to style the Nazis had few rivals. Someone once said Hitler was a gangster, but a gangster with style. They not only coerced people they seduced them. They used this idealism as a cover for their murderous agenda. The Nazis knew how to target young people and play on youthful idealism. One of the things this film shows is why Nazism was so attractive to many young Germans. Thus the director subtly signals to us the attitude he's going to take throughout the film. He makes a disparaging remark about the Napola students who are present and turns away in disgust when Friedrich agrees to try to join the academy. If you look at the beginning of Napola you'll see Dennis Gansel takes on the role of the coach at the boxing club. Well, the director of this film, Dennis Gansel, also appears in an acting role. ![]() ![]() They were jokey and lasted only a few seconds. You may remember that Alfred Hitchcock used to make cameo appearances in his films. I'll just make a few of points no one else has mentioned. It's a spellbinding film of extraordinary emotional power and haunting in its beauty. Script, direction, lighting, camera-work, editing, sound effects and music are wonderful. Michael Straczynski.This is a superb film - miraculous performances from the whole cast, especially Max Riemelt and Tom Schilling. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."Ĭreated by the Wachowskis and J. One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. How to add spoiler tags (#s "hidden text") Sense8: Season 1 (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack) Season 1 Complete Discussion (Spoilers) Sense8 Music Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts Season 2 Complete Discussion (Spoilers) Season 1 If All The World's A Stage, Identity Is Nothing But A Costume ![]()
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