The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Film Analysis

At the beginning of the movie, Bruno is completely naive about Germany patriotism. It has the audience curious because Bruno live in Berlin where is known as the capital of Nazi Germany. He at first thought the concentration camp as a farm where he could possibly meet his potential playmate. It is surprising when Bruno is unaware of the Nazi’s propaganda against the Jews. Assumingly, Bruno and Gretel are going to a public school where Nazis ideology was educated in the early age. Even with an overprotective mother, Elsa, Little Bruno must have seen the inequality in Berlin such as benches at the park labeled as “Aryans only” and the Jews being rejected from using streetcars in Berlin. As a German boy, Bruno must have witness the scene of “der Führe”, the leader, passing the city with their expensive car. However, it is the opposite with Bruno, instead of acknowledging the Nazi activities, he is utterly impractical about what is happening in Germany during the 1940s like the children today.
As it demonstrate in the movie, Shmuel is the son of a Polish Jew and clearly confuses of why he is in the prison camp with his father and grandfather. Shmuel duty in the prison camp was to help building a new without any supervision from the Nazi soldier therefore, the innocent boy sit near the electric fence staring at the other side of the fence. In reality, adolescent boys who are younger than fifteen year old in Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland, were instantly gassed in the gas chamber because they are too young to work in the