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Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be

Why Theory

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Is There a Copy Like A, You Know, Identity?

i like the idea that there hat, certainly, comedy isn't a retreat from th the horror of existence. Are the worst parts of existence like that? I think that has to be true. But i also think it's interesting those the certainly, great dictator. And in this film, we see this split of identity like the, you know, in great dictator, it's between the jewish barber and hink ad. In this film, it's betwen o. There's two versions of colonel ayrhart and and there's versions of hitler,. sort of, i don't think we see the real, no, no, you see from behind his head. It

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