From The Diary of Anne Frank to Schindler 's List, Many movies have been made telling the tales during the Holocaust. From survivors, soldiers, even people who helped hide the Jewish from the Nazi’s. On November 7, 2008 a Historical Drama film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Directed and written by Mark Herman. A movie that concentrates on the life of a young boy named Bruno(Asa Butterfield), who lives a wealthy lifestyle during the occurring war in Germany along with his mother(Vera Farmiga), elder sister(Amber Beattie), and Nazi Commandant Father(David Thewlis). The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command of a concentration camp that Bruno believes is a farm where all the farmers wear strange striped …show more content…
Somethings in history and in life needs to be put in perspective so children can understand. I watched this movie for the first time when I was about twelve and the movie showed more than i understood. It implied what happened during the time like the violence but did not show it. The older i got older, the more I could fully comprehend what was taking place during the movie. Throughout the movie you realize that most people were ignorant to the full extent to what was happening. Bruno’s mother did not know what was actually going on in her husband 's concentration camp, she did not found out until a comment from kolter about a foul smell from the …show more content…
Throughout the movie the kids are tauht jews are bad people, but bruno does not let that dictate how he sees people.
Bruno accepts Schmuel as a human being, not a jew, who does not seem like a bad person. While everyone else fails to looks beyond their prejudices, Bruno wants to be friends with someone who is told should be his enemy. He sees that him and Schmuel are no different. He comes to understand that Pavel is not a bad man or just a potato-peeler, he realizes that he his a good man.
Films like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are so important, we should never forget what horrendous evil Hitler unleashed. Neither should we forget that it was ordinary people who became caught in his genocide. The power of his rhetoric and personality, coming at just the opportune time in German history, won the nation to his cause. People became mass murderers, others looked the other way while it happened. It was easier for the people to believe propaganda, go with the flow and keep quiet instead of standing against the horrid cause. They did not want to face the
While the adults show their disgust and hatred to the Jews, Bruno doesn't mind them and is nice to Pavel, the Jew that got him the tire, and later becomes friends with Shmuel. Bruno’s father is a soldier and is in charge of the concentration camp. Even with all the Jew hating Germans around him, he still goes out to visit Shmuel and doesn’t let them ruin his friendship. Near the end of the movie Bruno shows his friend how much he cares by entering the camp to help look for Shmuel’s father, who had gone missing. While entering the camp, Bruno learned first hand how bad the camps actually were and wished he hadn’t come. Even with these feelings he still wants to help his friend, which eventually leads to his demise.
About 11,000,000 people died during the Holocaust, which was organized by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945 (12 years). There were about 23 main concentration camps during the Holocaust. Auschwitz was one of them. 6,000,000 of the 11,000,000 people that died were Jews. Shmuel could’ve been one of those Jews. Bruno could’ve been one of the other 5,000,000. The book might not have been true, but it was based on the truth. The movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is not as good as the book, because the book is more detailed, and interesting.
Schindler's List, by Steven Spielberg is an award-winning masterpiece - a movie which portrays the shocking and nightmarish holocaust in a three-hour long epic. The documentary touch re-creates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow were first deprived off , of their businesses and homes, then placed in ghettos and were then forced to labor for no consideration in camps in Plaszow, and finally they were resettled in concentration camps for execution. The violence and brutality of Nazi’s treatment towards Jews is a series of horrific incidents that are brilliantly showcased.
Bruno is little eight year old boy who’s learning new thing at school and at home with his parents. Besides that he thinks life is
Throughout war, there have always been an effort to stop the involvement of the innocent. A big effort of this is towards children who were unfortunately stuck in conflict and sometimes join the conflict. John Boyne's book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” helps shines light on social issues that are plaguing countries and communities today. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a touching story about the innocence of children in times of conflict shown by Bruno's lack of hate for Jews, Shmuel's kindness towards Bruno, and their commitment to each other in times of war.
The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne is about a young boy, Bruno, whose father is a soldier in the German army during WWII. Bruno lives with his parents and his older sister, Gretel. They live in a five story house in Berlin. He goes to school and has three best friends that he goes on adventures with. One day he comes home to find their maid packing his things. They move to a three story house in Germany because his dad was promoted and needs to be closer to his work.
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...ering again. When the news got out about the events of the Holocaust most Germans claimed they where vaguely aware about the death camps. Claiming they where misinformed about the camps, but Hitler had a 93% vote for his actions by Germany. These actions didn’t go unnoticed after all had settled after WWII the search for German officers to be charged with war crimes had started the people didn’t want the actions of the people who tortured, killed, and slaughtered them to walk away free. Many of the German SS officers where arrested for war crimes and sentenced but few escaped. In my opinion Hitler made the Jewish people stronger they ended up conquering and moving past this hard time. There are many holocaust museums and monuments symbolizing what the Jews and other people went through. In my mind the holocaust has to be the most brutal and vile event in history.
During the WWII the Germans conducted Holocaust of the Jewish race. The Germans invaded several different cities and countries and took the Jews to concentration labour camps and eventually killed them. The Germans killed approximately six million Jews all because of racial superiority. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is set in this era. The movie is also centered around the Holocaust where Ralph, Bruno’s father is a SS Commandant in the Russian army. He gets promoted and thus, the family has to relocate Auschwitz. Ralph is the commandant incharge of the Auschwitz concentration camp. His son Bruno, whose point of view we see the movie through, befriends a Jewish boy from the other side of the camp, which proves to have some starting and unexpected consequences. Meanwhile through the documentary we get to see the other side; the artifacts, blueprints and designs of the incinerators and interviews with various engineers to know the reality of how the Nazi were able to kill so many Jews.
In the second part, Spiegelman further emphasized the lowly qualities of mice and associate it with the Nazi’s lowly perception of the Jewish race.
Although this movie told the story of how millions of people were brutally murdered, it was also an amazing story of survival. I would definitely recommend this movie to others. It is a well-made movie that seems to be historically accurate. I believe that it could teach people a thing or two about how cruel it is to treat others in a hateful way just because they are different. I have been to the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. and I must say that this movie will leave a lasting impression on me, just as the museum
This film portrays one of humanity’s greatest modern tragedies, through heartache and transgression, reflecting various themes throughout the movie. Beyond the minor themes some seem to argue as more important in the film, the theme of friendship and love is widely signified and found to be fundamental in understanding the true meaning behind The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Director Mark Herman presents a narrative film that attests to the brutal, thought-provoking Nazi regime, in war-torn Europe. It is obvious that with Herman’s relatively clean representation of this era, he felt it was most important to resonate with the audience in a profound and philosophical manner rather than in a ruthlessly infuriating way. Despite scenes that are more graphic than others, the film's objective was not to recap on the awful brutality that took place in camps such as the one in the movie.
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" explores the beauty of a child's innocence in a time of war:
The Holocaust seems to have become a common trope in cinema and literature recently rather than the focus. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an example of how the Holocaust is being used as a vehicle for the plot of stories rather than the plot itself. Though the movie engages the audience and does a wonderful job of making the viewer sympathize and agonize over the tragedy of a Nazi family, the glaring inaccuracies and over-assumption of innocence show that the movie is not actually one about the Holocaust. Instead, it uses the Holocaust as a plot device to tell the unlikely tragedy of a Nazi family, two eight year old boys’ friendship, and their shared tragedy.
Many racial and ethnic groups are treated cruel, which contributes to the problem of discrimination. The inhumane treatment inflicted onto different racial and ethnic groups is provoking horrific violence around the world. The film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, gives us an insight to the cruel treatment endured by Jewish people in World War II. Jewish people were taken from their homes, separated from their families, and placed in concentration camps where they were expected to die. They were exposed to extreme levels of abuse, such as starvation, physical beatings, and emotional torture. The fear and terrorizing the soldiers used on the Jews is shown in the scene when Lieutenant Kotler catches Shmuel eating a cookie: “Are you eating? Have you been stealing food?