The boy in the stripped pajamas
This is a movie about a young boy, Bruno, who’s father is a nazi soldier. When his family moves to Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence, where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. This movie is about how adversity between two groups of people can still be over looked, in the eyes of a child. Bruno soon finds out that Shmuel is jewish, but Bruno does not share the hatred of jews that his father possesses. This movie was beautiful and very moving. I thought it was very interesting that Bruno, his sister, and his mother did not really know what was going on, only the father knew what was truly happening. Bruno thought the concentration camp was a farm with a lot of children and farmers on it. When bruno went exploring and found a boy his age sitting there alone bruno was not sure what he was doing, Bruno wanted to be his friend. He says to him,“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.” This part in the movie is crucial because it is when the little boy starts to show bruno what is going on, but is still naive him self in the whole picture. When the mother finds out what is happening at the camps and to the people in the camps she becomes distraught. I thought it added a lot to the movie how even though the mother was married to a soldier who is highly ranked she did not know what was truly going on and as I was watching it it made me realize that they were just blindly going along with what the people who were in authority wanted them to do. The end of the movie was horrifying and meaningful. I was truly shocked by the ending, that the family had found out too late that he was in the camp and when the father realized what had happened because of this camp. This ending is powerful because it shows the father on a personal basis what he had been doing to people for years. This was a beautiful and touching movie though I think it should have had a longer ending. This movie is very