Aside from vilifying the Nazis, the ideological endgame of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film remains a bit too slippery.
Are the micro-biopics that lean on the spectacle of celebrity impersonation the new camp?
The film dissects the intersection of two men’s lives in the aftermath of wartime and sectarian conflict.
Oliver Hirschbiegel seemingly rises to the task of coloring this tale with the necessary moral shades and silent fears of our Big Brother times.
Downfall challenges us not to derive schadenfreude from watching the Germans in the film getting flushed down the toilet.
The film conveys a chilling vision of rats being slowly flushed down a toilet.
Fight Club meets “Big Brother” in the punchy German export Das Experiment.