So I curled up on the couch and turned on TCM.
Oops.
This is what TCM was playing at 7:30 in the morning yesterday, Hitler's Madman. Here I'll describe one of the scenes I saw:
We see a Czech Mother, Daughter, and Son in their modest, shabby home in a small village in Czechoslovakia. The Mother is putting bread on the table, preparing dinner for the family.
The Son says, Mother, can I have a piece of bread?
The Daughter says, We should wait for Father.
The Mother concurs with the Daughter.
There is a knock at the door. The Daughter stands up and says, There is Father now!
The camera pans to the doorway.
Two men enter carrying a coffin. They place the coffin by the dining table.
Cut to a close-up of the Son, reaching for the bread.
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Well, what do you say to that? The first thing I thought of after seeing that was, Does not that seem just like a Monty Python skit?
The second thing I thought was about Woody Allen's quote from Manhattan about the impossibility of satirizing Nazis.
I did some research on the film, natch. Here's the imdb link. Turns out it was one of Douglas Sirk's first Hollywood films. Wow.
