Jojo Rabbit: Love Is Stronger Than Hate (1 John 4:18)

Jojo is a ten-year-old Nazi, his imaginary friend a buffoonish Hitler. His mother hides a Jewish girl in their attic. Through reluctant relationship with Elsa, Jojo's ideology collapses—not through argument but through encounter. John writes: There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear. Jojo's Nazism was not intellectual conviction but tribal fear: hatred providing identity in a collapsing world. When he loves Elsa, he can no longer hate Jews. The film suggests that ideology cannot be argued away but can be loved into irrelevance. Relationship accomplishes what rhetoric cannot.