MUBI

This movie carries the same mistakes many other works have committed when dealing with Hitler: depicting him as a mad man or an overly futile person.

In Moloch this is carried to the extreme comprising all his nazi entourage and representing then in an over burlesque manner.

While I understand and even appreciate this approach, when subtle, I find it to be condescending with Hitler’s atrocities and disrespectful with his victims when overdone.

Dehumanizing him makes it much easier to accept what he’s done, and it shouldn’t be like that. Instead we should understand he, and his entourage, were normal human beings, with no particular mental illness or judgment impairment. When you realize that, is when you freak out.