版权归作者所有，任何形式转载请联系作者。 作者：fuchen lider（来自豆瓣） 来源：https://movie.douban.com/review/9298958/ This movie sets during World War II, it investigates racism, humanity, and anti-war mainly through two 8-year old boys' senses. Bruno(Asa Butterfield), son of a Nazi German comandante, and Shmuel(Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy sent to a concentration camp along with his parent(not showen in the movie), and the Brunos, only few leads, yet it interprets the hardship of war in depth, I enjoyed watching this movie as it makes me think deeply about human nature. The story is based on a true historical fact. During the World War II period, Nazi German occupied half of Europe and sent most of the Jewish descendants living under occupation to concentration camps …show more content…
the movie starts with his question: mom, what's going on?, whereas his sister, Gretel(Amber Beattie) tends to pretend a grow-up, her first sentence in the movie is the definition of the word Promotion. Such comparison between this siblings could be seen as an investigation of humanity, as well as differences between Bruno's father, grandfather, the tutor, Lieutenant Karl and Bruno, his mother, grandmother, Karl's father. These people share different opinions on the war, the Jews, their country. Bruno's grandmother only appeared in the beginning, we can only guess her political view by Bruno's mother's interpetation and respond, we know that she is sick of what her son is doing, however, according to Bruno's grandfather, their son is in history making. Such Disputes breaking out in this family reflect the country, not all German agree with this war, too. We still see humanity in that crazy period, especially when the Nazi needs to shoot a propaganda clip to mislead the public. I like the part when Bruno and Shmuel first met at the electrified fence, Bruno asked tons of questions as usual. The whole conversation between them could be considered a philosophical think piece, especially the innocence and humor in it help balancing the bitter narration. I feel so sad about last part of the question-answer the most between the two
Dieter, a fifteen year old German soldier, is going into war even though his parents don’t want him to. He has no idea what real war is going to be like and he thinks that Germany has done no wrong no matter what the other, elderly soldiers tell him, he doesn’t believe it. The other boy, Spence, is sixteen and he drops out
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.
Soon after witnessing her younger brother’s death on the train to her new foster parents home, Liesel Meminger begins a life of poverty, reading, thievery, and street football games, but in a time of war even simple happiness doesn’t last long. With the arrival of Max Vandenberg, a Jewish fist fighter, and the war growing ever closer, Liesel and her loved ones attempt to survive life rattling
The films The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Schindler 's List recall a dark and devastating time in history known as the Holocaust. Amid the barbaric German Nazi invasions, are where we find the main characters of these two films. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the story of Bruno, a son of German Nazi soldier who befriends an inmate at a nearby concentration camp. For weeks, Bruno shares stories, food, and comforts the inmate, Shmuel, despite his parent’s orders and German upbringing. Bruno has grown up exposed to the Nazi propaganda, however his German upbringing does not create hostility or resentment toward this Jewish boy, but instead compassion. Similarly, Oskar Schindler, a German business man saved the lives of thousands of Jewish prisoners by arranging them to work in his factory. Both Oskar Schindler and Bruno did not allow neither their collective identity as Germans nor their pro-Nazi culture, to become central to their own individual identity and morals. They did not allow the constraints or “expectations of others”, in a German sense, to make them act
In 1941 the Jews of Sighet lived peacefully. Elie Wiesel, a thirteen year old Jew, wanted to learn about Kabbalah. One day while in his temple a man known as Moishe the beadle questioned him and they slowly became friends. Moishe taught Elie about the Kabbalah and changed many of his views about being a Jew. When Moishe was expelled from Sighet for being a foreign Jew it was only the start of the horrors to come. Moishe escaped and told tales about how adults and babies were shot, but none believed him. Slowly the German Soldiers moved into the Jews lives and rules became stricter. The Jews couldn’t leave their houses, they were forbidden to valuables, they were forced to wear yellow stars to identify themselves, and were moved out of their homes into ghettos. Even though all these rules changed their lives they thought everything would be okay.
As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these places, each person was separated from their families and given a number. In essence, these people were no longer people at all; they were machines. An estimation of six million deaths resulting from the Holocaust has been recorded and is mourned by descendants of these people every day. There are, however, some individuals who claim that this horrific event never took place.
There are even the stories of German soldiers, who must not have believed in the atrocities surrounding them, and found ways to feed, clothe, or find better work in a labor camp. And finally there is the story of German SS officer Menke, who recalled childhood memories of saving a couple and pushed aside an implanted hatred for Jews. Throughout the whole book, the stories would not have been able to be told unless these heroes emerged and because of these heroes, we are reading these stories today. Simple acts of kindness and four heroes. Israel Orzech tells a story of pain, struggle, and simple acts of kindness.
For many years, people time and time again denied the happenings of the Holocaust or partially understood what was happening. Even in today’s world, when one hears the word ‘Holocaust’, they immediately picture the Nazi’s persecution upon millions of innocent Jews, but this is not entirely correct. This is because Jews
A survivor of the Holocaust, named Mr. Greenbaum, tells his experience to visitors of the Holocaust Museum. “Germans herded his family and other local Jews in 1940 to the Starachowice ghetto in his hometown of Poland when he was only 12. Next he was transported to a slave labor camp where he and his sister were moved while the rest of the family was sent to die at Treblinka. By the age of 17 he had been enslaved in five camps in five years, and was on his way to a sixth, when American soldiers freed him in 1945”. Researchers have recorded about 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe. “We knew before how horrible life in the campus and ghettos was” said Hartmut Bergoff, director of the German Historical Institute, “but the numbers are unbelievable.
1st Part Hall, Allan Incredible Stories of young Jews who hid in the heart of Nazi Berlin The Daily Record 23 March 2013 www.dailyrecord.co.uk Rolf
The Holocaust is one of the worst events that has occurred in history where over 6 million jewish people were brutally murdered. There are many facts and first hand accounts of what took place during those times. Many diaries were kept and pictures taken that capture the horrific events that took place. There are others accounts though that claim the Holocaust never happened and that no one died.
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 ruthlessness infuriating way. Despite scenes that are more graphic than others, the films objective was not to recap on the awful brutality that took place in camps such as the one in the movie. The audience’s focus was meant to be on the experience and life of a fun-loving German boy named Bruno. Surrounding this eight-year-old boy was conspicuous Nazi influences. Bruno is just an example of a young child among many others oblivious of buildings draped in flags, and Jewis...
Bruno is a 9 year old boy growing up in a loving, but typically authoritarian German family in the 1930?s. His father is a senior military officer who was appointed Commandant of Auschwitz? a promotion that requires upheaval from their comfortable home in Berlin to an austere home in the Polish countryside. The story explores Bruno?s difficulty in accepting and adapting to this change - especially the loss of his friends and grandparents. Boyne gives personality and family to the sort of person who today is generally demonised by western writings - the people who administered and controlled the death camps in which over 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others were deemed to be grossly inferior by Hitler and his cohorts.
Bruno, an eight year old boy at the time of the war, is completely oblivious to the atrocities of the war around him - even with a father who is a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this - Bruno perceives the concentration camp uniforms as "striped pajamas." Further evidence is the misnomers "the Fury," (the Furher) and "Out-With" (Auschwitz). Bruno and Shmuel, the boy he meets from Auschwitz, share a great deal in common but perhaps what is most striking is the childhood innocence which characterizes both boys. Bruno is unaware that his father is a Nazi commandant and that his home is on ther periphery of Auschwitz. Shmuel, imprisoned in the camp, seems not to understand the severity of his situation. When his father goes missing, Shmuel does not understand that he has gone to the gas chamber.
He never really knew why Shmuel was on the other side of the fence. In the book, Bruno asked his sister, Gretel, “‘Are we Jews?’” (Boyne 182). This shows that Bruno had very little knowledge of what was really happening in Auschwitz and all around the world. Boyne had also made Bruno use a very shameful and inappropriate term in his book.