Nuremberg

This film is based on real historical events. Honestly, I expected more — and it ended up being the same situation as with The Zone of Interest. Nuremberg turned out to be extremely bland and, in my opinion, without much value.

The topic is well-worn and overused. I understand why it might feel relevant to American audiences right now — given the current political climate, but people learn from their own mistakes in their own time, and I’m not sure what this film adds to that.

In some scenes, characters recount facts to each other that the audience already knows — a device that exists purely to catch up viewers who apparently can’t hold information for long. It doesn’t help the film.

By the end, the film’s message is practically spelled out for the audience — shoved in our faces. And yet throughout the whole film I couldn’t shake the feeling that the creators were trying to rehabilitate the Nazis: to present them as ordinary, unremarkable people just like the rest of us. I might have bought that argument if it were about regular German citizens of the time — people who naively believed in inhuman propaganda, who had no idea about the camps or the full extent of what their government was doing. But when the subject is someone who was practically in Hitler’s inner circle… no, I don’t buy that he’s just an ordinary guy like the rest of us.