(I realize they never died out so as to need resurrection, but it felt to me in my young adulthood that they had died the way measles had died: not quite, but effectively. But "effectively" turns out to be not so effective, for both measles and Nazism.)
It could have been more on the order of smallpox and we'd all have been fine.
(Which is one of the other aspects of Fisher, obviously: he was much more theoretical when I discovered his film in 2010. He is still about as theoretical a Nazi as it is possible to find in a WWII-era film in that he voices none of the ideologies, even to justify his efforts on behalf of his native country once it's been revealed as such. It goes along with his daughter being able to eulogize him, the audience feel that he has done the right rather than merely the expedient thing in sacrificing himself to save her; it's part of the older pattern. It's just that he's still an agent of the German government and in 1940 that doesn't leave a lot of choice of political affiliation. It may be sharper for viewers in 2024 than at the time of the film's release.)
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It could have been more on the order of smallpox and we'd all have been fine.
(Which is one of the other aspects of Fisher, obviously: he was much more theoretical when I discovered his film in 2010. He is still about as theoretical a Nazi as it is possible to find in a WWII-era film in that he voices none of the ideologies, even to justify his efforts on behalf of his native country once it's been revealed as such. It goes along with his daughter being able to eulogize him, the audience feel that he has done the right rather than merely the expedient thing in sacrificing himself to save her; it's part of the older pattern. It's just that he's still an agent of the German government and in 1940 that doesn't leave a lot of choice of political affiliation. It may be sharper for viewers in 2024 than at the time of the film's release.)