The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I never thought I would come so close to crying watching a film. When one can see the Holocaust through the eyes of a young boy it shows you how stupid Germany was at the time, and how powerful and destructive propaganda can be. This film gives you many perspectives of what Germany was like through the eyes of a child, teen, mother, military father, and a Jewish boy. The mother in this film struggles with the war aggainst the Jews because like her son she is not as strongly influenced by the propaganda ,but because her husband is a high ranked officer she is blinded in the beginning of the film. She soon lets her heart do the speaking and understands for the safety of her children then she must take them with her out of the house. The father struggles with himself in that he he must make the decision to lie to his wife about who he really is. He doesn't fully understand who he is until the very end of the movie when his son has been killed and the blood is in his hands. I highly recommend this movie and can guarantee anyone who watches it will not leave their seats until its over. Its a beautiful way of understanding how the German people felt about the war and the holocaust and brings to new light that not everyone in Germany at the time was blinded by propaganda they just chose to look the other way for their own safety.