Nuremberg (2025)

When I saw the trailer for this film, I knew it was one of those films I had to go out and see. Now I don’t watch trailers as a rule because they give too much away, but I was at the cinema and, for this one, it didn’t matter. I knew how it was going to end anyway. Even if you aren’t into history at all, the plot itself was quite clear from the jump. Yet still…

The film in short
A WWII psychiatrist evaluates Nazi leaders before the Nuremberg trials, growing increasingly obsessed with understanding evil as he forms a disturbing bond with Hermann Göring.
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The trailer
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My Thoughts
This film was absolutely perfect. Normally, I see things I feel should be changed,d but with one every single beat stuck. It was so incredibly good

I liked the cast, and I thought the film was very well done. I enjoyed all of them. Within the film, we follow Douglas Kelley, the psychiatrist, trying to understand what made the Nazi’s different from all of us, with the aim for us never to repeat the mistakes of the war.

Within the film, when we are at the trial, we see real footage from the concentration camps. Now, I have seen a lot of footage, and it’s usually sprinkled throughout documentaries. I had not seen some of these bits, and I must say it was awful (it always is). You could not look away, and the flashes toward the cast who, within their role, had never seen any of it before, as back then, the reality of the concentration camps was not known, was heartbreaking.

I also thought that Sergeant Howie’s backstory was very interesting and done well. That storyline really showed how we can choose to be better people, how we can be better than others.

The ending was heartbreaking, though. I did not like the insinuation that Kelley killed himself using the same method as Göering because it was the method Göering used. Cyanide was relatively easy to obtain and a relatively easy method to use, which, as far as I am aware, almost always succeeds. We can’t know why he did it, of course, but I found it a very weird thing to insinuate.

It’s also interesting how we are nowadays far more aware and ready to recognise that some people do evil things and are bad people, but that all of us could, in some sense, be pushed towards bad things. Maybe not quite that bad, but the difference between them and us is nowhere as big as we would like it ot be.

I thought it was a very interesting and impactful movie.