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Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be

Why Theory

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Is That Comedy That Affects You?

The film is able to use a shylock's dialogue at different points, like when a greenberg is captured by real notes. It carries both the dramatic and the cometic dimension, like, at the same time. In order for that popularity to even exist, you aready have the conditions of possibility for, like, a trump election would not be there. That's the whole thing.

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