The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Film Analysis

"What happened then was both unexpected and extremely unpleasant. Lieutenant Kotler grew very angry with Pavel and no one - not Bruno, not Gretel, not Mother and not even Father - stepped in to stop him doing what he did next, even though none of them could watch. Even though it made Bruno cry and Gretel grow pale." This quote is from the the book.(Boyne, 148-149). The perception of women in “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is that they are useful so long as they believe the lie. The movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” describes the Holocaust from a child’s point of view. Bruno thinks the concentration camp is a playground and a place that has a cafe.
The Kommendant’s mother which is the grandmother of his children thinks her son is

evil; thus she is irrelevant. Bruno and Gretel’s mom believes the lies that are being told to her and then stops believing and then is forced away to stay with her sister..Bruno’s sister Gretel goes from being sweet to evil but being accepted because of believing the lie.
The Kommendant’s mother which is the grandmother of his thinks her son is evil; thus she is irrelevant.Grandma says she sick and she just doesn’t want to see her son because she thinks he is evil. The film actually shows us that she disappears.In the movie, Grandma is in the beginning and she tells her son she doesn’t support him and we never saw her again.
Mom is believing the lies that are being told to her and she stops believing it and then is forced away.When she finds out that the smoke coming from the chimney is other people's body getting burned she tries and tells herself that it is just smoke and then she can’t take it anymore and she ends up leaving.In the movie, when she starts yelling at her husband he says that you can just leave and he asks the kids if they want to leave and Bruno says no and Gretel says yes.

Sister goes from being sweet to evil but being accepted because of believing the lie.At first Gretel is a sweet and innocent little girl and then when they move to the forest closer to the concentration camp and she meets the other guy she acts older and throws all of her dolls away and starts putting Nazi posters on her walls. In the movie, when Bruno asks Gretel why all her dolls are in the basement and she says “I’m too old to play with dolls”.
So long as they believe the lie in the movie they are useful. Grandma thinks her son is evil; thus she is irrelevant. Mom is believing the lies that are being told to her and then stops believing and then is forced away.Sister goes from being sweet to evil but being accepted because of believing the

lie.