Illustrations: Patrick Hosmer

‘Jojo Rabbit’ and the Cinema of Denial

Why is Hollywood so compelled to make feel-good movies about the Holocaust?

Aaron Gell
Published in
9 min readOct 17, 2019

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IIt’s the best remembered line in Anne Frank’s famous memoir — the statement of pure-hearted generosity that helped make the book an international bestseller and landed it on high school syllabi for decades to come; the line that Broadway audiences wept to hear as the final…

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Aaron Gell
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Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com