When Marx Met Hitler--John Cusack "The Storm Changes"

Sherwood 2022-10-23 22:19:34


I have been looking for this movie "Change of Color" for a long time, and finally I found it and saw it. The poster design is very interesting. Behind the "X" is the Nazi logo, which symbolizes a shadow.

The movie is starring John Cusack, who has liked this handsome American actor very much since the prison in the sky. The film is not based on real historical events and biographies, but a fictional fable, but the film is very successful in that the life choices and turning points of Adolf Hitler, a key figure who influenced human history, are very detailed and harmonious. close narration. The English name of the film is "MAX", and the Chinese translation is also very meaningful. "The Wind and Clouds Change Colors" is indeed a period when the mountains and the rain are about to come and the wind and clouds are about to change color.





At the beginning of the film, a Jewish painter played by John Cusack is in the gallery of his factory. Later we know that he lost his right arm. He is a Jew. For a painter, losing his right arm means the end After his own artistic career, he made a living by starting this gallery. In a defeated, run-down and depressed country, what is art? Hold on, there is one more thing to explain, the name of this Jewish painter is Marx. The real Marx in history was also a Jew, and the person he was about to meet who also had artistic pursuits was Adolf Hitler.



Noah Taylor plays Hitler in the film. He walks on the dilapidated street to receive relief food with his paintings. The first scene in which he appears is intriguing. He looks up at the German eagle on his head. What does that look mean? yearning for supreme power.



The real Hitler in history had a certain artistic talent. During his wandering in Austria, he once thought of becoming a painter, and the abandonment of this ideal and the choice of political ideals are important to him personally, to an era, and to the world. The history of the United States has had important and disastrous effects, just as Stalin did not choose to be a priest as his mother's parliamentarians chose. In the real process of history, after Hitler became the head of the Third Reich, he still designed the construction of Berlin in an artistic way, and designed the Nazi Party emblem. These are his works. At that time, the youth's Hitler was an artist who could not get the art space, but he was surprised to find that he had an amazing political speech ability. His speech began to attract a large number of people to listen to him. Marx saw the talent of this man and saw his terribleness. He was doing his best. Strive to lead him on the path of art.



At that time, Hitler, who was in the process of changing his values, was not keen on anti-Semitic remarks. Marx finally agreed to give him a chance to show his artistic talents. However, several anti-Semitic Nazis took him on the street on the night that Marx and Hitler had an appointment. Hitler, who was beaten to death and waited for Marx in the metropolis, was disappointed in the end, and angrily tucked his own paintings into his hands and disappeared into the crowd. The hidden background belonged to the artist, and the darkness toward which he went was the devil's. This is how history changes.
I really like this fictional fable. What I see is the twist of a villainous character. The story of power, politics, art, hope and despair overlaps. It seems to make people think that if Marx met Hitler that night, Maybe everything that happens later will change, just like Hong Xiuquan successfully passed the imperial examinations, Li Zicheng did not get laid off at the post office, Stalin had a warm childhood and a father who did not drink too much...

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Max quotes

  • Max Rothman: Hitler, come on. I'll buy you a glass of lemonade.

  • Max Rothman: You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler, but I'm gonna try. Because if I've learned anything over the past four years, it's that we all shit the same, scream the same, and die the same.