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In Good, Vicente Amorim directs John Wrathall's adaptation of C.P. Taylor's play about a meek literature professor (Viggo Mortensen) who reluctantly joins the Nazi party in order to advance his career and placate his family. The Nazis are interested in a novel he wrote, partly inspired by the burden of dealing with his mother's dementia, that seems to argue for the concept of mercy killing.
They ask him to draft a paper that will offer a moral justification for human extermination, which he does, little realising that his new friends are planning to use his logic as an argument for immoral purposes.
Good is ostensibly about how Mortensen’s character comes to not only enjoy but also placate the benefits of being one of the Nazis' pet intellectuals, and how he has to decide whether to jeopardise his standing, by helping his best friend, Jewish psychiatrist Maurice (Jason Isaacs) - by far the most vital figure on the screen and the real moral core to all that unfolds.
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UK/Germany / 2008 / 96mins / Director: Vicente Amorim / Cert: 15 / Lionsgate
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