The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

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nagina_005

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I Have Just Watched this Moving Film.

It had fantastic performances from the two main characters of the young boys Bruno and Shmaul.

Asa Butterfield and Zac Mattoon O'brian were truly amazing.

Such a Moving story of hope in a time that there was not much hope around.

This didnt educate me because I have learnt of the history of the nazi era but It certainly made me understand it even more and more so my sister that is studing the naziz in school.

A film that I will never forget and a time in history we should never forget.

I had tears in my eyes at the ending. It was a shocking moment of realisation.
 
I'm definitely going to rent this, and will make sure I stock up on tissues beforehand. To say it looks like a real weepie is an understatement.
 
I saw this at the cinema- I was nearly in tears at the end. Amazing, very moving ending. My sister has read the book but reckons the film is better- which is unusual and shows hot good a film it is.
 
Yeah, I agree that the film is better, it packs a much harder punch imo. I read the book before I saw the film, and when reading it I could see the ending coming a mile off, but I think if I didn't already know I'd be hard-pressed to guess in the film what would happen.

The performance by Vera Farmiga (the mother) is particularly exceptional, but the rest of the cast are great too. Harrowing.
 
I know but his father ran the place, his mother was having a nervous breakdown, his sister was training to be a mini Hitler and a Jewish fella even got kicked half to death if not fully to death while they were all having dinner.

I am sure that even without the education he received he would have suspected something.

Also the security at that camp wasn't up to much.
 
I have to admit that I was disappointed in the movie because of the flaws and plotholes that you've pointed out.

I really wanted to like this movie and feel for it due to the subject matter, but it left me with more questions than answers....and sadly bereft of the emotion I was meant to feel.
 
In the beginning of the film I thought it was a bit confusing that they all had english accents.

I just wanted to take the boy in the camp home with me :(
 
More like shocked at how a seemingly intelligent kid could be so incredibly stupid. It is obvious from this ludicrous ending that its not a true story.
Two born every minute..... just in case one dies.
Or maybe not , its only fiction.:D
 
I watched it a few days ago and ignoring all the historical inaccuracies it was one of the most depressing films I had ever seen. I have never cried during a film (apart from when I was 6 and watched Batman Forever or Returns, that bloody Penguin!) but it got me very close.
 
i must say its a very powerful film (the book is aimed at children with a view to teaching them about the holocaust and as such i dont think is supposed to be entirely believable) but i just wasn't moved by the ending. i sat there stony faced and i cry at anything usually :-0
 
It's a powerful film for children, but as an adult I found it ridiculous. That camp was meant to be Auschwitz and 2 young laRAB were playing board games at the perimiter fence and eating cake and buns? I best stop before I start ranting.
 
That's kind of how I feel about this movie.

First all, I didn't know it was aimed at 'children'. I didn't read the book either.

But my guess is that the biggest part of those who viewed this movie, didn't know that it was aimed at children.

So on hinRABight, and viewed from that aspect, then yes, I can understand where it was coming from.

And if you understand the basic simplicity of two kiRAB coming together, with each of them having no understanding as to why a wire fence is coming between them...............then yes, this film attained its goal.

Those simple dialog exchanges does make it very moving and disturbing.

I think you have to watch this movie and try and ignore all plotholes.
 
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