The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (possible spoliers)

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Anyone else seen this?

I saw it today, and thought it was brilliant.

I found it so hard to watch though, especially the horrific ending. I knew what was going to happen from reading the book, but I was still hiding behind my hanRAB; so sad and extremely hard hitting. I can tell it'll be one of those films I won't be able to get out of my head for days.​
 
Hi
I haven't seen the film yet but read the book and will always remember the ending
Bluebottle
 
What's this like compared to the book? The trailer looks very exciting and moving, but the book really didn't do much for me (heart of stone?) possibly because I read it straight away after The Book Thief, which broke me. Of course, the ending is rather horrific.
 
I think it's far more disturbing and sad than the book.

The book didn't make me cry; the movie completely got to me. The three frienRAB I went with were in tears too.

I do recommend it.
 
I enjoyed the book tho you have to suspend disbelief at the storyline. Looking forward to seeing the movie version.
One question tho.... are the kid actors any good or the usual carp?
 
I've heard bits and bobs about this over the last few days, and i have to say it sounRAB absolutly brilliant. I really can't wait to see it.
 
The trailer looks a bit contrived to me, I don't think a jewish boy in a concentration camp would be able to play boardgames with a boy on the other side of the fence without one of the guarRAB spotting him.
 
Well quite, that's why I posted about having to suspend your disbelief. For a start
all Death Camps were surrounded by electric fences. Yet we're supposed to believe that a Camp Commandant's son can crawl underneath a fence and join his jewish friend IN the camp!! Absurd! And we're talking Auschwitz here! A camp surrounded by electric fences, patrols with dogs, towers with spotlights, lookouts and muchine gunners. Yet no-one notices? Laughable.
 
I'm dying to see this movie, although I'd like to read the book first, I ordered the book on Thursday so hopefully it should be here tomorrow. I've ruined it for myself though as I looked at spoilers and now know what happens at the end.
 
I want to see the movie too but i have never heared of the book (of course i know its based on a book, but I don't know the content).
But as i read the thread and the spoiler i am not sure if the movie is good. Where is the negotiation to reality?:confused:
I try to watch the movie to make up my own mind but for me as a history student it sounRAB like a horrobile romance....
 
I found the book a bit strange. It was written like a children's book - not as an adults. i.e. big print, quite short and simple language.
 
Haven't seen it, but I want to. I just looked it up on wikipedia and read the ending that you're talking about, now I know why people have been moved to tears :(
 
I thought the book was really predictable and hugely over rated, so that has put me off the film, maybe I'll go and see it now, if it is in fact different. Like another poster, I read The book thief around the same time, and that was truly wonderful IMO.
 
I really enjoyed it, I want to see it again

Seriously don't ruin it for yourself and read this Spoiler
It doesn't take too much to keep weak, starving prisoners captive. If they did get out, they wouldn't get too far (altho i know some people escaped from Auschwitz), but there's forged documents needed, not to mention looking 'strange'. I heard about this kinda stuff a long time ago, so my knowledge is less fresh, but I don't think it's all that far fetched.
The movie did make it look like the zyklon B had only been put in a minute or two when Bruno's dad 'found' him. I'm pretty sure that it would have been worth opening the door and checking his living status. But I guess he wasnt meant to eh
 
Unrealistic movie...impossible ending! Have you ever considers that this movie wants to show a real life situation? And anybody with a bit knowledge about history has to know that it is completely fanciful.
Even if I had liked the story I would have found it stupid and exaggerated.
 
It was written for children, I believe.



Yeah, I wasn't a great fan of the book but the film was fantastic, very moving and much more emotive than the novel which, incidentally, I read right before the Book Thief ... and like you found that wonderful.



I don't care that it was unrealistic. Its fiction, its a story, BASED on real events but not caught up in them - which I really don't care about, despite being a History student. If I wanted to know the facts I'd watch a documentary/read a reference book etc etc. Stories which attempt to stick to plausible storylines tend to be far less dramatic and have a lot less emotional impact than those which take licence. Anyway, it was written for children, and so introduced them to the concept of the Holocaust without being bogged down.
 
Devastating film. Its the first movie I've experienced that, once the movie was over the cinema was completely silent. Nobody moved or said anything everybody just sat there in horror.

Its a film that really makes you open your eyes a bit. Amazing but horrible to watch. Still, for affect I give it 10/10.



- and in response to peoples comments about the ending --- so what? This is the story of a little boy, its not a docummentary. Had they chosen what you call a more "realistic" ending it wouldnt have had half the effect it did.
 
I saw this it today, after I just wanted to sit down and cry, because normally after I've seen a seriously sad film I just think to myself its ok, it wasn't real, but with this film you couldn't do that, and I won't be forgetting it any time soon.

I had not read the book but my friend really wanted to see it and she dragged me along. Its so haunting. I sobbed, the ending was just, I can't even think of the worRAB to describe it. The woman who played the mother did a fantastic job, as did David and the little boy, infact I think they all did. I wanted to get up and walk out of cinema because I just couldn't take it, but I stayed and watched it all, it was a bit to close to home though, nethertheless a fantastic film.

Sure it wasn't perfect but it made its point, its a real eye opener and it shocked me to the core.
 
I read the book yesterday and thought it was pretty good, not brilliant but good. This is one book where I think the movie version will be much, much better. My local cinema isn't showing the movie so I'll either have to wait until it's out on DVD or check and see if any websites are hosting the movie.
 
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