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The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
The Boy In The Striped pajamas offers the unsettling truth behind the Holocaust. The concentration camp in the film that is implied to be Auschwitz, is where the adventures of a curious eight year old boy take place. From beginning to end, this movie shows an incredible story, and gives some insights of what Jewish people really did go through. This movie is heartbreaking, but will make you smile at the same time. The director, Mark Newman does a fantastic job showing each characters feelings and thoughts. A party is thrown in celebration of the father, Ralph (David Thewlis) taking control of a concentration camp by becoming the commanding officer. Newman offers enough information of Ralph’s parents that allows the audience in, showing not …show more content…
This is where Bruno’s (Asa Butterfield) adventures begin. Bruno can see what he believes if a “farm” from his bedroom window, un aware of the reality of what is going on around him. Seeing Bruno taking notice in the pajamas the people are wearing on the farm, as well as the pajamas that Pavel, (David Hayman) is wearing, a Jewish man who tends to the family’s farm and other needs. Sadness comes about when Bruno falls off of a tree and Pavel helps him, because he was a doctor before he was forced into this camp. Bruno and him share a special moment when Pavel asks Bruno what he wants to be when he grows up, and he answers an explorer before Bruno gets the chance. Bruno being taught that these people are “evil” and that he needs to stay away from them, thinks a second time, wondering why they are so bad, because all he has seen is good. Bruno also takes note of the stacks that are over the farm, when questioning his father, he is told an excuse rather then the truth, showing that he himself, has to know deep down inside what he is doing is wrong if he cannot even explain his job to his
The Boy In The Striped pajamas offers the unsettling truth behind the Holocaust. The concentration camp in the film that is implied to be Auschwitz, is where the adventures of a curious eight year old boy take place. From beginning to end, this movie shows an incredible story, and gives some insights of what Jewish people really did go through. This movie is heartbreaking, but will make you smile at the same time. The director, Mark Newman does a fantastic job showing each characters feelings and thoughts. A party is thrown in celebration of the father, Ralph (David Thewlis) taking control of a concentration camp by becoming the commanding officer. Newman offers enough information of Ralph’s parents that allows the audience in, showing not …show more content…
This is where Bruno’s (Asa Butterfield) adventures begin. Bruno can see what he believes if a “farm” from his bedroom window, un aware of the reality of what is going on around him. Seeing Bruno taking notice in the pajamas the people are wearing on the farm, as well as the pajamas that Pavel, (David Hayman) is wearing, a Jewish man who tends to the family’s farm and other needs. Sadness comes about when Bruno falls off of a tree and Pavel helps him, because he was a doctor before he was forced into this camp. Bruno and him share a special moment when Pavel asks Bruno what he wants to be when he grows up, and he answers an explorer before Bruno gets the chance. Bruno being taught that these people are “evil” and that he needs to stay away from them, thinks a second time, wondering why they are so bad, because all he has seen is good. Bruno also takes note of the stacks that are over the farm, when questioning his father, he is told an excuse rather then the truth, showing that he himself, has to know deep down inside what he is doing is wrong if he cannot even explain his job to his