I'm not trying to be clever. I think the main point of the film 'Inglourious Basterds' had a lot to do with an authoritarian regime foisting its values upon a people as demonstrated in the passage where the SS Colonel comments upon the Nazi propaganda machine and how his own view is both in agreement with it while extending even further in the refinement of the forensic psychology of thinking like one's enemies (the stuff about hawks and rats).

I meant 'authoritarian' in the single sense of a dictator/regime and not 'authoritative' as in a collegium of subject matter experts. You are lost in the details of the film's elements while failing to get the overall 'moral of the story'. The seeming cartoonish aspect which you criticize is of the type employed by Orwell in '1984' or 'Animal Farm' and it is used to make points about things like 'The Big Lie' which cannot be shown in a literal way without being ironic and failing to make any point at all.

You argue aesthetics while I address political science. Neither of us are experts in those fields so I expect that this thread has largely served its limited usefulness of noting that there are those two different aspects of the film to ponder. Not to mention the case study of propaganda which it provides for students of communication.