Humor can be an excellent way to escape from terrible things. Humor is also a legitimate way of escaping terrible things. Yet there are terrible things you don't have to joke about. For example, it would be completely unnecessary to make jokes about how people die in gas chambers. The makers of Jojo Rabbit not only present jokes about, for example, children who blow themselves up: they are also bad jokes and that is unforgivable. Jojo Rabbit becomes painful in 2 ways: because painful facts are raised and because bad jokes are made about it. The drama in the film does not work either. If I am presented with funny Nazis in one scene, how can I believe a scene later that they hang people? The presence of Scarlett Johansson is a complete mystery to me. If I were her I would take another agent. The production probably had too much budget.