Brilliant musical score. It adds so much to the film that Scott Walker should have gotten his name in the credits above the director's as Hitchcock did with Herrmann for his Psycho score. Engrossing film.
I cannot belive some people were surprised by the film's ending. The film is called "The Childhood of a Leader", that already tells you he will become "a leader" when he grows up and it's a film about a disturbed kid growing up. Did you think he was growing into a scout leader or a leader of a rock band? Seriously, people! :-)
cultmama cultmama surely no one was surprised that he turned into a dictator, I think the surprise ending was that his real father was obviously the man his mother was having an affair with (told purely through the fact they used the same actor as the father and the grown son in then last scene)
@@Finnatese There were lots of hints that they at least had some illicit relationship (they act really weirdly around each other), but this was still a surprise. (Also, the name of this "chapter" of the film says he's a bastard, using a double entendre.) Why exactly this was such a shocking ending is kind of confusing... like, okay, so his mom had a child out of wedlock and he became a dictator? So what? It's not a particularly interesting nature vs. nurture argument. His presumed dad (and mom) was a dick, and we don't know enough about his biological dad to know if he was also shitty (which is likely because he's sleeping around with married women and his offspring became Hitler lol). I loved the movie but found the decision to cast Pattinson as the grown-up dictator to be weird and kind of weak.
Interestingly, the final scene involving the spinning was not actually planned, but as the "Dictator" exited the car the camera-man actually slipped on a banana-peel. The director decided to keep it in.
Filming this scene probably felt quite normal for Robert Pattinson - it's basicially the same as when he's greeted by his female fan base at festivals, etc - same wild eyes, same cult of personality. I was surprised how much I got into this movie - very compelling and disturbing, and, dare I say, thought provoking. Definitely want to watch it again.
92ninersboy Really? You would watch it again? I prefer to take a shit then stand up and sit on a uncomfortable too small for me chair over the toilet and watch my big fat feces floating in the water for 2 hours than re-watch this movie again. The cinematography is well done I give them that and they nail the 1920's atmosphere, it's dark and evil I also admire that soundtrack also good but there is no story to back up all this visual and sound build up! the dialogues were very shallow, and it seems that some shots were purposely made longer than they need to be only to make the movie itself longer. It just looks too pretentious and it's BORING AF, if it only had better storyline, purposeful dialogue, more action and character development it would be a much better movie.
@@bottle1lack743 "I prefer to take a shit then stand up and sit on a uncomfortable too small for me chair over the toilet and watch my big fat feces floating in the water for 2 hours than re-watch this movie again." No you wouldn't
She fears the horror that is coming up right behind her. The world as she knows it is spinning into chaos. The austerity of the rest of the film was building up to this total loss of control in the camera work as well as the musical score.
In my view the girl is highlighted to show the long-lasting impact of the new leadership on the younger generation. The girl has no real notion of what's transpiring or what the consequences might be, but at her age she is likely going to impacted throughout much of her life by this movement. The spinny/weird camera angles are meant to highlight the sense of trauma and bewilderment some might feel at the rise of a fascist / dangerous leader.
I see the girl as a potential future leader... who's more interested in the crowd and the fanfare than the actual Man getting out of the car. She could lead in the future whether it be a kingdom or a household.
I was shocked when I saw Rob in the final scene! I quickly realized that Charles must be the boy's real father and that the boy grew up to become very much looks like his father ... I am very attentive to the details and I was surprised to have missed this one !! I mean something for sure was going on between Charles and the mother, but I did'n expect the child to be his
Good movie that highlights how the failures of the Treaty of Versailles lead to the following war. My only gripe is that it doesn't paint an accurate image of real childhoods of future fascist leaders. Mussolini was the son of a socialist agitator and a school teacher. Hitler came from a dysfunctional middle class family. Either way, the soundtrack is outstanding and the dizzying stairwell sequence before this scene sticks in my head for some reason.
What even is an "accurate" or correct portrait of a childhood of a future fascist leader? They're all pretty different. For example, Japan's fascist rulers during WW2 were from military households and nobility while Ante Pavelić was a working class kid who happened to stumble upon nationalist teachings. Mussolini's childhood, in fact, probably had less to do with his eventual fascist attitude. He grew up with socialists, yes, and he became socialist himself. But, his disagreements with Italy's pacifist socialists during WW1, which led to his ousting from the socialist movement, led Mussolini into radically changing his beliefs: he denounced classic Marxism in favour of nationalism, which put him on the track to fascism.
I like to think this movie takes place in an alternate timeline where someone traveled back in time and killed baby Hitler, only for someone else to take his place
The fact that they made Pattinson played double role in this movie l mean they should've cast other actor to portrayed the now grown-up dictator. But otherwise it's an amazing movie with awesome music scores.
Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler had a youth filled with poverty and violence. The boy in this movie is a spoiled and neglected “rich kid”. This is one of many the failures of modern time human science.
Wijnand Hijkoop Hitler wasn't born in a poor family. when his father died he was given a reasonable amount of money. before stating what you think are facts try some research first, it's not difficult nowadays.
You can read about the extreme poor youth of Stalin en Mussolini yourself on for instance Wikipedia. Understanding what made Hitler to the person he was is very difficult. However, I don't think you can compare his youth to what we see in the movie.
Wijnand Hijkoop hitlers views were shaped by the world of germany at the time he grew up in it as well. You dont have to be poor to see it everywhere and the devastation it causes.
Wow so artsy dude. The spinning camera is like symbolic and shit. I'm gonna huff some glue and watch this movie a second time to really appreciate the art behind it. I'm so cultured 😌
Yeah honestly I'm also annoyed by those kind of choices. Same thing happened to be when I watched Wonderstruck. Julianne Moore plays 2 characters and they're not the same and nobody inside the movie acknowledge that it's irritating I was reading the movie wrong because the actress was the same and I was like : CHOOSE SOMEONE ELSE IF IT'S GOING TO MAKE ME CONFUSED haha
Prescott looked like Pattinson because Pattinson was his real father. You can see the sexual tension between Pattinsons' character and Prescott's mother. Also, her mother didn't want to have sex with her husband but Pattinson was with her in the house when her husband wasn't.
@@mauricioruiz522 I disagree. If that's the case then we should also think the teacher and the Dad were sleeping around. Mom didnt' want to have sex again cause having Prescott almost killed her and she didnt want to chance creating another monster. IMO. Pattinson could be the father too tho. Lot's of fun angles to think about. Great movie.
Nobody in particular who really existed. He represents all of them, he represents the type and not one particular historic personality. He could be Stalin, Hitler, Mussollini, Franco....really any fascist dictator - it really does not matter and was not the point of this movie. Their psychology is the same and that is the point.
Actually it was really straight forward and clear from the beginning, the ending is already in the movie title and I was bored for the last half hour of it because I already knew where it was heading. You just must be either still very young or not very bright (or maybe both).
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Brilliant musical score. It adds so much to the film that Scott Walker should have gotten his name in the credits above the director's as Hitchcock did with Herrmann for his Psycho score. Engrossing film.
Well the end credits do have his name up top front and center. So....
Scott's score truly did play a huge part throughout the movie.
I cannot belive some people were surprised by the film's ending. The film is called "The Childhood of a Leader", that already tells you he will become "a leader" when he grows up and it's a film about a disturbed kid growing up. Did you think he was growing into a scout leader or a leader of a rock band? Seriously, people! :-)
cultmama cultmama surely no one was surprised that he turned into a dictator, I think the surprise ending was that his real father was obviously the man his mother was having an affair with (told purely through the fact they used the same actor as the father and the grown son in then last scene)
@@Finnatese There were lots of hints that they at least had some illicit relationship (they act really weirdly around each other), but this was still a surprise. (Also, the name of this "chapter" of the film says he's a bastard, using a double entendre.) Why exactly this was such a shocking ending is kind of confusing... like, okay, so his mom had a child out of wedlock and he became a dictator? So what? It's not a particularly interesting nature vs. nurture argument. His presumed dad (and mom) was a dick, and we don't know enough about his biological dad to know if he was also shitty (which is likely because he's sleeping around with married women and his offspring became Hitler lol). I loved the movie but found the decision to cast Pattinson as the grown-up dictator to be weird and kind of weak.
having a temper tantrum are we?
@@chiminh7451 how is that a temper tantrum? There's even a smiley face at the end
Interestingly, the final scene involving the spinning was not actually planned, but as the "Dictator" exited the car the camera-man actually slipped on a banana-peel. The director decided to keep it in.
Lol
Hmm, though you joke, I believe this makes the most sense by far.
Oh right just like in Mario Kart.
Great idea!
GENIOUS!
And he just kept slipping again and again. They didn't have the money to do a re-shoot.
RIP Scott 💔 Outstanding creator of sound 😢👏
Filming this scene probably felt quite normal for Robert Pattinson - it's basicially the same as when he's greeted by his female fan base at festivals, etc - same wild eyes, same cult of personality. I was surprised how much I got into this movie - very compelling and disturbing, and, dare I say, thought provoking. Definitely want to watch it again.
92ninersboy Really? You would watch it again? I prefer to take a shit then stand up and sit on a uncomfortable too small for me chair over the toilet and watch my big fat feces floating in the water for 2 hours than re-watch this movie again.
The cinematography is well done I give them that and they nail the 1920's atmosphere, it's dark and evil I also admire that soundtrack also good but there is no story to back up all this visual and sound build up! the dialogues were very shallow, and it seems that some shots were purposely made longer than they need to be only to make the movie itself longer. It just looks too pretentious and it's BORING AF, if it only had better storyline, purposeful dialogue, more action and character development it would be a much better movie.
@@bottle1lack743 "I prefer to take a shit then stand up and sit on a uncomfortable too small for me chair over the toilet and watch my big fat feces floating in the water for 2 hours than re-watch this movie again."
No you wouldn't
I love this film, every frame of it. But the way the audio synchronizes with the girl's lips at 1:22 always gets to me.
absolutely loved this movie, thanks for posting the scene
This film left me confused but intrigued
Amazing ending.
What's with the little girl in the blue beret at the end? And what's with the spinny, weird camera angles? I really am curious...
She fears the horror that is coming up right behind her. The world as she knows it is spinning into chaos. The austerity of the rest of the film was building up to this total loss of control in the camera work as well as the musical score.
Maybe she's a sociopath in waiting to
In my view the girl is highlighted to show the long-lasting impact of the new leadership on the younger generation. The girl has no real notion of what's transpiring or what the consequences might be, but at her age she is likely going to impacted throughout much of her life by this movement. The spinny/weird camera angles are meant to highlight the sense of trauma and bewilderment some might feel at the rise of a fascist / dangerous leader.
Yep.
I see the girl as a potential future leader... who's more interested in the crowd and the fanfare than the actual Man getting out of the car. She could lead in the future whether it be a kingdom or a household.
music reminds me of Gustav Mahler
I was shocked when I saw Rob in the final scene! I quickly realized that Charles must be the boy's real father and that the boy grew up to become very much looks like his father ... I am very attentive to the details and I was surprised to have missed this one !! I mean something for sure was going on between Charles and the mother, but I did'n expect the child to be his
it's not. Corbet re-uses actors in time skips and you can see Prescott is now rocking his father's look.
all hail scott walker
keep the hands steady
This music reminds me on Igor Stravinsky and it’s terrifying
Cool final scene
Good movie that highlights how the failures of the Treaty of Versailles lead to the following war. My only gripe is that it doesn't paint an accurate image of real childhoods of future fascist leaders. Mussolini was the son of a socialist agitator and a school teacher. Hitler came from a dysfunctional middle class family. Either way, the soundtrack is outstanding and the dizzying stairwell sequence before this scene sticks in my head for some reason.
What even is an "accurate" or correct portrait of a childhood of a future fascist leader? They're all pretty different. For example, Japan's fascist rulers during WW2 were from military households and nobility while Ante Pavelić was a working class kid who happened to stumble upon nationalist teachings. Mussolini's childhood, in fact, probably had less to do with his eventual fascist attitude. He grew up with socialists, yes, and he became socialist himself. But, his disagreements with Italy's pacifist socialists during WW1, which led to his ousting from the socialist movement, led Mussolini into radically changing his beliefs: he denounced classic Marxism in favour of nationalism, which put him on the track to fascism.
I like to think this movie takes place in an alternate timeline where someone traveled back in time and killed baby Hitler, only for someone else to take his place
activate steady cam! fired!
Remember me..Adon Shahkor!
where can I see this movie?
netflix
IMACKS31 thanks
We borrowed it from the local library.
The fact that they made Pattinson played double role in this movie l mean they should've cast other actor to portrayed the now grown-up dictator. But otherwise it's an amazing movie with awesome music scores.
it is meant to imply that Robert Pattinsons charachter was really his father which is why he strongly resembles him.
J T G now the movie makes sense to me ahah. I know it
Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler had a youth filled with poverty and violence.
The boy in this movie is a spoiled and neglected “rich kid”.
This is one of many the failures of modern time human science.
Wijnand Hijkoop Hitler wasn't born in a poor family. when his father died he was given a reasonable amount of money. before stating what you think are facts try some research first, it's not difficult nowadays.
You can read about the extreme poor youth of Stalin en Mussolini yourself on for instance Wikipedia. Understanding what made Hitler to the person he was is very difficult. However, I don't think you can compare his youth to what we see in the movie.
Wijnand Hijkoop Hitler was beaten by his dad regularly while his mother though loving was also overbearing
Wijnand Hijkoop this movie is fiction. the only failure here is you
Wijnand Hijkoop hitlers views were shaped by the world of germany at the time he grew up in it as well. You dont have to be poor to see it everywhere and the devastation it causes.
Wow so artsy dude. The spinning camera is like symbolic and shit. I'm gonna huff some glue and watch this movie a second time to really appreciate the art behind it. I'm so cultured 😌
Right
i know you're just being a shithead but the spinning camera does signify chaos, agitation, fear.
Good movie. Bad casting choice to make Pattinson the adult Prescott. Confusing.
@@Multivaaac what do you mean?
It's supposed to imply that Prescott is actually the child of Charles Marker.
Yeah honestly I'm also annoyed by those kind of choices.
Same thing happened to be when I watched Wonderstruck. Julianne Moore plays 2 characters and they're not the same and nobody inside the movie acknowledge that it's irritating I was reading the movie wrong because the actress was the same and I was like : CHOOSE SOMEONE ELSE IF IT'S GOING TO MAKE ME CONFUSED haha
Prescott looked like Pattinson because Pattinson was his real father. You can see the sexual tension between Pattinsons' character and Prescott's mother. Also, her mother didn't want to have sex with her husband but Pattinson was with her in the house when her husband wasn't.
@@mauricioruiz522 I disagree. If that's the case then we should also think the teacher and the Dad were sleeping around. Mom didnt' want to have sex again cause having Prescott almost killed her and she didnt want to chance creating another monster. IMO. Pattinson could be the father too tho. Lot's of fun angles to think about. Great movie.
What?????
Is this Hitler?
YOUR LEGACY kinda
I'm just gonna leave this here : ua-cam.com/video/cs4oHnYHO8w/v-deo.html
wha
Obviously, this leader didn't exist
Who is he supposed to be? Stalin?
clinton, bush, obama, trump....
Pa šutiraj deeečkooo!!! No.
Nixon, Bush and Trump
I think that he's meant to be more of a representation of fascist dictatorship throughout history.
Nobody in particular who really existed. He represents all of them, he represents the type and not one particular historic personality. He could be Stalin, Hitler, Mussollini, Franco....really any fascist dictator - it really does not matter and was not the point of this movie. Their psychology is the same and that is the point.
This movie doesn't make any sense and so very confusing, all done to impress the critics.
Actually it was really straight forward and clear from the beginning, the ending is already in the movie title and I was bored for the last half hour of it because I already knew where it was heading. You just must be either still very young or not very bright (or maybe both).
damn just say u stupid and move on