The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas ) (2008)

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Oct 4 13:37

The fantastically shocking final scene of the film left me sobbing and thinking about the horrors of the Shoah. Yet, the debates about the authenicity of it are justified. Especially the beginning seems very British - although set in Germany. Furthermore, Auschwitz seems strangely small in the film. There are now towers from which German soldiers supervise every inch of it. It is questionable whether or not it would have been possible for the two boys to make friends through the fence.
The film is carried by the incredible performances of two little boys. And between all the films that deal with the Holocaust, this one stands out.

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 16 13:58

''Why do you wear pyjamas all day?'' Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. Asa Butterfield: Bruno From Director Mark Herman comes forth Boy In the striped Pyjamas, an adaptation of John Boyne's Novel. May I first start by saying that this is another of the finest holocaust movies I've ever seen, told from a unique perspective, as opposed to the likes of The Pianist and Schindler's List. We see it from an innocent child's perspective, Bruno and his turbulent childhood faced with a changing world. Boy In the striped Pyjamas shows us the Nazi Regime in exe...Read more

Rating : 9/10