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Taika Waititi: between comedy and tragedy

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Filmustage will tell you about the creative path as well as the directorial style of Taika Waititi. And in the end, we will try to answer the question "what makes Taika Waititi one of the most versatile filmmakers of our time". Disclaimer: our blog has no academic purpose behind it, because we are viewers just like you.

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"Don't Look Up": Satire in its Essence

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The easiest way to illustrate this difference is to look at two films: remember Bong Joon-ho's "Parasites" , which is violent in its criticism of social and economic inequality, so it is Juvenalian satire; now look at "Jojo Rabbit" by Taika Waititi , which also grotesquely criticizes fascism (a specific ideology), which makes it a Menippean satire.

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