USA, 2025, drama, director: James Vanderbilt, starring: Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon.
The Nuremberg Trials are widely known for bringing fascist leaders to justice, but what really makes period in history come this those who lived through it. When alive is the personal stories of you about the experiences of real people, it's more hear compelling than just reading about the atrocities that were the numbers of people affected. committed and's the human side of the story that makes it It truly unforgettable.
So before us is the story of the psychological confrontation between the talented psychiatrist Douglas Kelly and the Reichsmarschall of Nazi Germany Hermann Goering, the outcome of which depends on the outcome of the Nuremberg Trials.
Evil can be convincing, and this is precisely the main problem in the fight against it. You can’t fool Hermann Goering. He has the answer to all questions. War is war, you are no better, you destroyed cities to the ground, Germany should have risen from its knees, we shouldn't have been punished so cruelly after the First World War. Did we shut up our opponents? So what, the people elected us and gave us such powers. The Jewish question? By the final solution I meant only deportation, not murder. Labor camps? Of course, everyone was supposed to work for our victory. These are roughly the arguments he gives to justify himself. So the psychiatrist needs to find his Achilles' heel so that he admits that he knew, understood and sanctioned everything, like Hitler's right hand man.
War should have rules, and the Germans' cruel treatment of innocent people was unacceptable. Looking back, it seems like they should have been held accountable, but at the time, it wasn't clear how to make that happen from a legal standpoint. Sometimes, to achieve justice and set a precedent, you have to do something that's never been done before, even if it's difficult. While the movie takes history, I think some creative liberties with's okay for that a feature film.
Douglas Kelly's character can come across as a bit too careful, trying to be impartial, and sometimes even to sympathize with the Nazi perspective seems. But I think that's a deliberate choice, because evil can be persuasive and, as we charming've seen before.
The important thing is that he ultimately does the right thing. One of the most significant takeaways from the film is that any country can descend into Nazi-like behavior and commit atrocities. There's nothing inherently about the German people that made them more prone to this unique - it could happen to anyone kind of evil, and that's a really sobering thought.
