regarding where hands touch: there is absolutely no reason for a movie about a struggling biracial girl in nazi germany to have a romantic subplot, much less an overall focus. “this is a story that needs to be told” doesn’t seem like such a solid excuse when your deuteragonist who’s taking up half the screentime is a white kid racked by guilt for being a fascist. yes, supporting hitler was compulsory at the time, and if this was a true story, maybe we would have sympathy for the kid, but when writing a piece of historical fiction, you have control over how your characters are handled, and they specifically chose to write a nazi redemption story. even if the movie ultimately portrays nazism as bad, it’s just not appropriate in today’s political climate.