Movie Review: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by Donald E. Hester
on Friday, 10 April 2009
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This movies starts off with a very happy beginning. Back dropped in the heydays of the 1940 as seen by children. "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." Pasted from <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/>
The parents tried to keep the fact that it was a concentration camp from the young boy. To me that should be an indication to the parents that what they are involved in is wrong. The children's tutor starts to indoctrinate them. When the mother asks the father about what the tutor is teaching, he says it was what all children were being taught and needed. Very dangerous to let the state determine what your children should be taught.
What a heavy burden for an 8 year old boy! He gets a firsthand look at the ethical issues and the hypocrisy of the Nazis.
The boy meets a little Jewish boy, his age, on the other side of the fence. Toward the end he breaks in to help the Jewish boy find his father, who presumably was sent to the furnace. He gets stuck in the prison just as they take a group to the gas chamber. And Just as I thought the boy is killed in the gas chamber at the end. The father’s evil deeds turns on him.