Why is Jojo's mother hanged?

This confirms his mother was right, though sadly his mother has already been discovered as anti-Nazi by the establishment, and hanged for her crimes in a truly terrible moment.
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What happens to Jojo Rabbit's mother?

Rosie works as a secret activist; she's seen leaving anti-Nazi pamphlets in public spaces. However, she's eventually caught and executed offscreen. Jojo finds Rosie's body hanging with other rebels, left in public to set an example. Her death is a factor in her son's eventual hatred for Nazis.
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What was Rosie burning in Jojo Rabbit?

Jojo consults with imaginary Hitler about how it will be harder to write his book about Jews than he thought. Suddenly, they spy Rosie coming in and burning a piece of paper in the fireplace.
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What's the point of Jojo Rabbit?

"Jojo Rabbit" is precisely the sort of movie that should be taught in schools because it shows kids how to think for themselves, and to not just assume that what is going on around you is true or right. It teaches kids to educate themselves and to listen to the oppressed rather than the oppressors.
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Is Jojo Rabbit Based on a true story?

Jojo Rabbit isn't based on a real German boy who daydreams of an imaginary friend named Adolf Hitler. Instead, Waititi's screenplay is based on Christine Leunens' 2008 fictional novel Caging Skies.
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Why did Waititi make Jojo Rabbit?

Waititi also revealed that he was inspired to make Jojo Rabbit after reading a statistic that 41 percent of Americans and 66 percent of American millennials had never heard of Auschwitz.
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Where is Jojo Rabbit's sister?

Jojo's older sister has recently died of influenza. Into Jojo's rigid, nationalistic life comes a horror for which he is decidedly unprepared – the Jewish girl, Elsa, played by Thomasin McKenzie as somewhat of an older sister figure to Jojo.
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What do butterflies symbolize in Jojo Rabbit?

That was a very visual indication of Jojo's loss of innocence. Especially in the middle, when Jojo follows that blue butterfly and finds his mother hanged. I was doing some reading about this and the butterfly has become a symbol of the Holocaust, specifically the children who died at the hands of the Nazis.
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What do shoes represent in Jojo Rabbit?

Rosie's Shoes (Motif)

Throughout the film, Waititi often includes shots of Jojo's mother's shoes, which are red and stylish. They are not especially practical shoes, and in this way they represent the fact that Rosie is fun-loving and carefree.
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Where is Jojo's dad in Jojo Rabbit?

Ten year old Johannes Betzler, more commonly called Jojo, is the son of good Germans, his father away fighting in Italy, while he is under the care of his mother Rosie, with his older sister Inge recently having passed away from illness.
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Who was hanging in Jojo Rabbit?

The film's most heartbreaking moment was that of the death of Rosie, which came as a surprise to both viewers and Jojo. As Jojo is walking down the street, he comes across with a blue butterfly and follows it to the public square, where he finds his mother hanging along with other people.
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What does Jojo do to Elsa?

Jojo walks through the city one day and finds his mother has been hanged in the town square. Devastated, he returns home and stabs Elsa in the shoulder, then breaks down again.
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Does Jojo Rabbit have a happy ending?

Jojo takes Elsa outside, where it's revealed that the Allies did indeed win. She slaps Jojo for tricking her and then, free and alone together with no idea what the future holds, they dance.
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Do Jojo and Elsa get together?

Jojo is reluctant to tell Elsa for fear that she'll leave him. Elsa then tells Jojo her fiancee is dead and that she's all alone, so it's implied they'll stick together, as Jojo has made peace with the fact that Elsa likes him now, but only as a brother.
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Does Jojo Rabbit like Elsa?

Recognizing her despair, he forges a letter from Nathan, claiming that he and Jojo have figured out a way to smuggle her to Paris. Elsa confesses that Nathan died of tuberculosis the previous year. Jojo tells her he loves her, and she tells him she loves him as a brother.
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What's the quote at the end of Jojo Rabbit?

Jojo Rabbit concludes with a line from Rilke's “Go to the Limits of Your Longing”: “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.” What is the poet saying in this passage?
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What happens to Jojo and Elsa after Jojo Rabbit?

Elsa agrees and the pair leave the house, but she soon sees how the war is over, leaving her and Jojo to dance on the doorstep. The final scene shows Jojo truly coming of age, and realising just how awful the Nazi regime was.
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How does Jojo find the secret door in his house?

25–28: Jojo arrives at home and hears a noise upstairs. He heads upstairs and wanders into Inga's bedroom, where he discovers a secret door built into the wall. Jojo pries it open and discovers ELSA, 15, disheveled and emaciated, huddled in the darkness.
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How old was Elsa Jojo Rabbit?

Elsa Korr : You're not a Nazi, Jojo. You're a ten-year-old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.
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Who is Jojo Siwa related to?

Joelle Joanie Siwa was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 19, 2003, to Jessalynn (née Lombardi), a professional dance instructor from Iowa, and Tom Siwa, a chiropractor from Nebraska. She has one sibling, an older brother named Jayden Siwa, who is also a vlogger.
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What does Jojo tell Elsa about the war?

Along with the news of Hitler's suicide, this signals the end of the war. But when he returns to Elsa, he initially lies and tells her that Germany was victorious. This is in the hope that she will be forced to stay with him, knowing as he does that she was only ever there because she needed to hide from the Nazis.
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How old is Jojo in Jojo Rabbit?

In the film, Jojo is a ten-year-old living in Germany as WWII winds down. Davis is a British actor, believed to be between 11 and 12 years old. Both of his parents are in the movie business — in fact, his dad has been the cinematographer for numerous Marvel films. Jojo Rabbit is his first movie.
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Is Jojo Rabbit serious?

Yes. But 'Jojo Rabbit' is also deadly serious. Viewers familiar with the antic wit of Taika Waititi — from such comedies as “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok” — might wonder what he'll next pull out of his hat.
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What does Elsa teach Jojo Rabbit?

Elsa's persistence is a key part of understanding where people can come together. In fact, her patience is otherworldly –Jojo literally stabs her after his mother's death, and Elsa finds it in her heart to sit and console her violent captor because she knows the underlying human emotions he is facing.
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