Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas

This narrative film had a powerful question to address, how far are we willing to believe what our government is telling us? In this film, it shows a young German boy named Bruno, who's father runs a local concentration camp. Unaware of his father's evil deeds, he befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel and the two begin a friendship, unaware of what is really going on. The film shows how someone like Bruno chose not to follow what the authoritarian figures in his life say and do what he feels is right. It also shows how his mother was unaware how far her husband was going with dealing with the "Jewish problem", and becomes disgusted with him. The ending of the film is what really gets under your skin and one should ask was it due to karma for what his father was doing or was it how it showed how under the Nazi party, all hope and everything good was completely destroyed.

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