![]() The artful, young Jena Malone (Donnie Darko), almost unrecognizable in crinkly blond hair, serves briefly as Hitler’s ideal of Aryan hubba hubba - until Eva Braun (Zoe Telford) comes hip-wiggling up to der Fuhrer at a Nazi rally. By the second night, the script is resorting to therapy jargon to explain why Modine’s newspaper warnings aren’t diminishing Hitler’s growing army: ”People don’t want the real news - they don’t want to be depressed.” Julianna Margulies and Liev Schreiber have a soapy subplot about their crumbling marriage - she’s a Hitler supporter he’s skeptical but weak. Hitler: The Rise of Evil: With Peter Stormare, Friedrich von Thun, Peter OToole, Zoe Telford. ![]() What you cannot fear, however, is the artistic responsibility to render that allure vivid and convincing, lest you be accused of making Hitler ”sympathetic.” This is the trap into which The Rise of Evil falls, weightlessly. You can’t make a good piece of art about Hitler without being afraid of him - of the undeniable allure he exerted to coerce people to follow him, and to enslave others, into the hell he created on earth. ![]()
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