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The innocence of childhood savagely collides with the Holocaust in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Bruno (Asa Butterfield) knows that his father is a soldier and that they have to move to a new house in the country... a house near what he thinks is a farm. But his father isn't just a soldier; he's a high-ranking officer in Hitler's elite SS troops who's just been placed in command of Auschwitz. As Bruno explores the woods around the house, he discovers the concentration camp's perimeter fence. On the other side sits a boy his own age, with whom Bruno strikes up a friendship--a friendship that will have tragic consequences. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is most powerful in the details: The casual brutality of a Nazi lieutenant; the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the family's domestic life with glimpses of the treatment of the imprisoned Jews; a ghastly propaganda film suggesting that life at Auschwitz was like a holiday. But more than anything else, Butterfield's performance makes this film compelling. The young actor perfectly conveys Bruno's limited perspective even as the film carefully unveils the larger, darker reality. The movie's ending will undoubtedly spark arguments, but only because of the emotional complexity of what happens--The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is made with great skill and compassion. Also featuring David Thewlis (Naked) and Vera Farmiga (The Departed) as Bruno's parents. --Bret Fetzer
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Explaining a great evil to children,
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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 pyjamas,
This review is from: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (DVD)
Absolutely amazing movie. The ending will get you, I guarantee. It is worth seeing, and worth sharing. A lot of life lessons can be learned from this movie.
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the boy in striped pajamas,
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A really good movie for anyone above the age of 13. It is truly an eye opener and a heart breaker at the same time. It brings back what happened in the past and just reminds us that all human life should be thought out as equal. We must never ever repeat what has happened nor should we ever forget all those soles that lost their lives. Humans wanting power over other human life because of race. I am going to be watching this one again for sure.
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