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Explaining a great evil to children,
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This review is from: NEW Boy In The Striped Pajamas (DVD) (DVD)
It's difficult to know how to explain to a child some of the most disturbing events of the twentieth century. How do you explain an evil as overwhelming as that of the Nazi death camps, Stalin's systematic starvation of millions of Ukrainians, Mao's cultural revolution, or the horrors of Pol Pot?This film illustrates how it can be done and done well. It's the story of a friendship that develops between a concentration camp commandant's young son and a Jewish boy in the camp. Yes, during the real events such a friendship would have been almost impossible. There'd have been a guard who'd have seen the two talking through the camp's fence and quickly put a stop to it. And yes, the horrors of camp life are heavily sanitized. When they need to move camp inmates, the guards wave their arms about like they were shooing chickens on a farm. In the real camps, they'd have beaten anyone who moved too slowly with the butts of their rifles. But all those inaccuracies are necessary. Yell too loudly at a child, and he becomes paralyzed, unable to hear what you are saying. Show a child evil that is too raw and uncensored, and their minds will freeze up. While not denying the actual events, this film lowers the volume at which they are presented, so a child's mind can grasp them. All the Nazi measures to marginalize Jews, driving them out of jobs and professions, is reduced to one gentle, elderly man, a former physician who now peals potatoes. All the Nazi propaganda that the Jews are vermin, typified by a school textbook read aloud, is contrasted to a shy Jewish boy in striped pajamas with his head shaved. Small, personalized snapshots are used to explain something that in its totality would be too overwhelming. By all means show this film to children seven and older. Discuss it with them before, during and afterward. But before you show it, watch it yourself, view the deleted scenes (which fill in missing parts of the plot), and listen to the excellent voice over commentary by the book's author and the film's director. You'll understand the story better yourself and thus be better able to explain it to your children. --Michael W. Perry, editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II
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"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" DVD,
By Michelle (Saskatoon, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: NEW Boy In The Striped Pajamas (DVD) (DVD)
The Boy in the Striped PajamasThis is an amazing film which could be enjoyed by audiences of all ages. The perspective of the holocaust from the views of children is something that is not often thought through. Excellent film, well put together. Shocking. Makes you think about humanity, humility, and how lives were severely affected by the attrocities that were the holocaust.
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This movie penetrated my soul.,
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This review is from: NEW Boy In The Striped Pajamas (DVD) (DVD)
This movie is excellent, in my opinion. It slowly and quietly led me along the journey with the young German boy discovering the reality of a concentration camp. However, my journey took an unexpected turn at the very end that penetrated my soul. This movie was viewed in my world religion class, and the Grade 11 students were exceptionally interested. The end was shocking to most, and I did necessarily take time to discuss the meaning of the movie so that they could come to terms with the ending.
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