This is not a brilliant documentary. But it is great, in an unconventional way. I have a strange love for re-dramatised history documentaries that I’m not sure I can rationalise. The conventional dream of life in the film industry is pretty consistent, everyone wants to go to Hollywood and share palm grease with the stars. Nobody dreams of re-dramatising historical documentaries, and that is not a reason why I find them so brilliant… they are just fantastically bad. I guess its a surefire way to lighten up some horrifically dark episodes of history, although I somewhat doubt thats ever the intentions of the people who make them. “Adolf Hitlers Wickid Mind” isn’t just another ignorantly brief biopic about the worlds favourite despot. It follows the story of the worlds first ever psychoanalytic profiling of a politician, commissioned by ….. in 1942, just as Hitler was becoming aware of the fact that Stalin has an even smaller penis then himself and thus the German war machine was suffering glitches. A group of the America’s best psychoanalysts were assembled to write a report on what were the forces that drove the mind of Hitler, and their causes. Psychoanalysis was a good few decades old by this point, and Freud’s theories had hardened into dogma, which makes for brilliant re-dramatising, as its just plain funny hearing freudian analysis on any subject, but when you combine it with spectacularly bad acting, and the subject is Hitler its a winning trio. So after 5 months of smashing heads together over every piece of “evidence” they have, they come up with some startling prediction which were spookily accurate (lol); that as the Germanys made a certain progression towards losing the war, that Hitler’s notorious bursts of outrage would become more frequent and intense, and he would make less appearances in front of his increasingly wartorn and hungry public, and that god forbid someone from within the party might try and assassinate him, and that finally he would commit suicide. Who’d have thought hey? I wonder how much these guys charged for 5 months painstaking work to come to these conclusions, I think they could have saved money by getting a blind deaf and dumb guy sit on a braille copy of Mein Kampf. Criticism of these predictions aside, everyone knows Hitlers story to some degree, but this documentary adds a little more to the story by explaining why he turned out as he did, and in that respects its quite good. But thanks to the bad actors trying to talk about Adolf’s Eidepus complex, it gets a big thumbs up from me.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:37:52 +0000
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