What better way to brighten the mood than to bring Hitler into the mix?
If you haven’t seen Downfall, do yourself a favor. Bruno Ganz is mesmerizing, and I don’t mean that in the usual People-Magazine-movie-review sense, either. More like the Elizabeth-Berkley-in-Showgirls* sense. You know what I’m talkin’ ’bout.
*Or, if you prefer, the episode of Saved By The Bell when Jessie Myrtle Spano gets hooked on caffeine pills in her quest for academic perfection, the acting in which rivals not only Ganz’s portrayal of the crazed, cornered German dictator, but also Burt Reynolds’ turn in Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.