The Goebbels Experiment
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Movie Reviews of The Goebbels Experiment
Movie Review: A spectacular and remarkably original documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all the Nazis, Goebbels was one of the most vile and abhorrent. As the propaganda minster, he was one of the two or three most important Nazis. He was one of the key players in all of the major decisions made domestically by the Nazis (he played a much smaller role in military affairs). This documentary consists almost entirely of Kenneth Branagh reading excerpts from Goebbels's diary, a remarable document that reveals how petty and paranoid and vengeful he was. It is not a full picture of Goebbels, since he clearly is blind to his own foibles and shortcomings. For instance, he speaks repeatedly of how vile he considers the Jews to be, but he had several affairs with beautiful Jewish females. He was also famous among the Nazis for his sexual appetite, something that does not receive full attention here. All in all, this is one of the finest documentaries about the Nazis that I have ever seen, a film that stands out despite a very crowded field. This is without any possible question a must-see film.Movie Review: Cleverness is not the same as wisdom
Summary: 5 Stars
It's funny that it has taken this long for someone to do a documentary on Joesph Goebbels. He is an excellent subject for this treatment. He operated in that most public of political operations-propaganda-and he was next to Hitler the prime orater of the Third Reich. Also, he left a rather detailed diary from the 1920's to his death in 1945. The makers of the film wisely let goebbels speak for himself,with an actor reading from the diary through the film. It presents a man who was certainly very clever and ingenious-but to what appaling ends! If ever there was a lesson needed on the difference between even the most brilliant cleverness and wisdom, the life of Joesph Goebbels is a prime example. And the ending, showing footage of Goebbels burned and chared corpse,is the final and inevidable comment. How horroible and completely unneccessary it all was.Movie Review: Horribly chilling
Summary: 5 Stars
With no script other than the diaries of the madman himself, this original documentary covers the delusional career of the Nazi propagandist until his suicide with his family as the Russians closed on Berlin to end WW2. The narrator perhaps adopts an, at times, more sinister and dramatic tone than the words intended. But who can say, really? The footage is great, showing Germany just before Allied bombs devastated the once beautiful country and its cities. What a tragedy. You see that the Nazis did not spring up overnight, but rather took many years to infect the entire nation, culminating in the absurd catastrophe that was WW2.Movie Review: The Goebbels Experiment
Summary: 5 Stars
This is The Goebbels Experiment a movie about the life of Joseph Goebbels and why he did what he did. It is possible to see from the portrayal of his speeches how the German people could have been taken in by such a dramatic orator as Joseph Goebbels.
It is a general history of his life and the war. He was a major force behind the Holocaust and as this Movie/documentary tries to demonstate he was also the one behind Adolf Hitler.
The music used in the introduction is highly suitable.
Movie Review: Unique Document
Summary: 5 Stars
Goebbels was by a far cry the most literate of the Nazi henchmen. This DVD presents a unique opportunity to hear (and see) things from a smart thug's point of view. The fact that he is wrong about most everything comes through loud and clear by the (in his case, most grisly) end. You have to feel sorry for his children though. What a life.