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This is a very important movie. It portrays the maximum outcome, of a - sadly - too normal interpersonal situation, where a grandiose personality disorder, born out of deep self-hatred, and steelified by desperate surroundings, has pumped up exaggerated ambitions, in order to project out, the attached feeling of hate, from the subjects own self-hatred. This towards a certain group of victims. That is my interpretation of the title, MAX. Maximum Outcome. Storyline In the environment of war torn Germany, we find a young war veteran, Adolf Hitler. He is loaded with humiliation, shame, anger and hatred. As so many other Germans, from that period, he also finds the peace terms of Versailles, humiliating and provocative. They make all their war efforts and sacrifices at the front, useless. So Hitler wants respect and he wants revenge. Not only for him, but also for Germany and the German people. As so many other hateful veterans, throughout the bloody history of mankind, Hitler also attempts to find activities, enabling him to let off steam, and make him feel respected. And in this movie, destiny pick a Munich art dealer, who happens to be Jewish, helping Hitler out of fear, to figure out what type of activity, will help him the most. Eventually, Hitler figures out, that Art + Politics = Power. Maximum Power, naturally. His lust for power is a narcissistic effort, distancing him from his own dysfunctionality (read: self-hatred). The movie also portray the young Adolf Hitler, developing in two stages; 1. from desperation to control behavior 2. from control to dominance behavior It is an important movie, to anyone wanting to understand, why humiliation turn into violence.  I give it Top Rate and thank the entire crew, for making it happen. The humankind need many more movies in this category. They can save lives.  Michael, Denmark.

Great movie about ART and WAR with Hitler and an art collector as vessels for those ideas. Some artistic liberties are taken but in emotion it is a representation of Hitler's life

Hitler was not sporting a mustache at all in the movie. I am mctriggered.

Rather interesting perspective on Hitler's vision of his politics as art, even if somewhat disturbing.

A pretty good approximation of the young artist and zealot.

Beautiful and chilling at the same time.

Powerful film with one of the most hauntingly memorable endings that I've ever seen.

a great and memorable movie

An intelligent and utterly compelling hypothetical question in which scholarly musings and dramatic irony come together to create a powerful, thought-provoking experience.

'Politics is the new art.' ~Adolf Hitler

Interesting but confusing investigation of the roots of Hitler's aspirations.

They stabbed us in the back

An art critic attempts to encourage a disturbing young man's art and dissuade him from pursuing political aspirations ... oh, and the young man is Hitler. A colleague recommended I see this film because, in his words, "People criticized it for humanizing Hitler, but I thought that was one of its strengths." His point is that we so often dichotomize, see historical and political differences in clear terms of good and evil: the bad guys have the red light sabers and the good guys have the blue or green ones. His point, and I would argue the film's point, is that human beings, even the most depraved ones, are motivated by a myriad of influences, and dichotomies, by definition, are reductive. The film presents Hitler in no gentle terms. He never smiles, but when you glimpse his teeth, they are nothing to behold, gray and misshapen. He screams a lot. He's remarkably insecure. The roots of his antisemitism are presented in no uncertain terms. He makes everyone around him uneasy. In the end, I would argue that the film didn't humanize him enough because the character, aside from his insecurity, is just as unlikable and impossible to identify with as you would expect. I'm not proposing that Hitler be portrayed in positive terms, quite the opposite. What I'm writing is this: here is a man who rose to power because something he said connected with people; he also was married. A humanizing portrait of him would get to the root of what his supporters saw in him <i>even as we can whole-heartedly reject his ideology.</i> But it's a noble, risky, and controversial proposition to begin with, and I think it's admirable for <i>Max</i> to attempt to make us see the world in less myopic terms. John Cusack is great as the Jewish art critic who attempts to take Hitler under his wing. The direction by Menno Meyjes is also quite strong, able to convey character and story in some single, beautifully framed shots. Overall, <i>Max</i> is not a great film, but it's an interesting conversation-starter; questions like "Is our historical understanding narrow?" or "Is this film's attempt immoral/unethical?" are worth asking.

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But Noah Taylor = awesome as usual.

Creo que esta pelicula intenta humanizar a uno de los mas temidos villanos del mundo moderno. Si bien, la historia no es real (o al menos eso creemos) COnsidero que la pelicula presenta una realidad alterna lo suficientemente buena y creible de lo que pudo haber ocurrido con Hitler. Ademas, todos los actores y actrices participan de esta pelicula, logran conmovernos, hacernos odiarlos y quererlos. De por si, no soy fan de Susack, pero debo admitir que su papel me encanto y, Taylor simplemente se luce. Tambien, encontre que la pelicula tiene varias escenas bien logradas, bastante sutiles pero con mucho significado para el desarrollo de la misma y hasta para examinar la historia de los Nazis. En conclusion, si eres fan de las peliculas de nazis, la historia del WW2 o de buenas peliculas, creo que esta es un MUST, para disfrutar. Altamente recomendada.

of all the things i've heard about hitler, never knew he was an aspiring artist - tho obviously that wasn't the part they were teaching us in school. very interesting story, even if not all of it was entirely true, and yes it does raise a few q's about whether that if he had pursued his painting career the things that unfort. did happen in real life wouldn't have otherwise.

Great if you are a John Cusack fan.

I've half seen this film at least 3 times in the last decade and finally had time to see it all when it aired recently. Hitler's first beer hall rant...I see who Glen Beck channels on that mindless rant he calls infotainment. Of course, don't we all wonder today might look like if Hitler had decided to be a mediocre...or possibly a completely twisted mad artist? I'm sure the world would have found a way to produce someone equally if not even more vile....it seems to be a key component of human dna and we seem to find a way to continue the traditions that breed righteous anger and widespread destruction. Of course, it's probably easier for everyone to believe he jumped from the womb wearing hobnailed boots and brandishing a weapon.