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.
One day when Shmuel gets sent to shine glasses at his house him and Bruno start talking. A soldier see them and Bruno told him he didn’t know who he was, and the soldier beats the boy, Bruno feels terrible and want to make it up to Shmuel. Bruno wants to understand why the life behind the fence is so awful and why Shmuel isn’t happy. Bruno thinks it’s not better, but interesting because there are other kids to play with. They form a strong bond that can't be broken by anything and it makes him realize that his friends in Berlin weren't as special as Shmuel is and their friendship. The two boys have been talking and have been friends for about a year and decide that Bruno wants to go on the other side of the fence to see what its like and help him find his papa.
First of all, Bruno shows no hate for Jews in the book even though he is taught that Jews are awful, time and time again but does not listen.
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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.
The documentary Auschwitz – The Blueprint of Genocide and the feature film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas demonstrates the horrors of the World War II Nazi Concentration Camps. Both texts although different types, fiction and non-fiction, proceed to make us sympathise for the Jewish race that were getting mercilessly killed. The texts expose the cruelty of the killing that the Nazi conducted, and how a lot of the Germans were unaware of the killing that was happening in their country. The feature film also shows that the older generation brainwashed the younger generation into devoted Nazi youth.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The story seeks to make the argument that children are not born with prejudice and hate, but they are instead taught those ways of thinking. However, to make this point the story suspends much of reality in order to bring about an unlikely friendship between Bruno and Shmuel. However, even though the message is clearly a good one, it severely misrepresents the life during the Holocaust and could mislead uneducated viewers about the level of danger and cruelty in the camps. This begs the question: is it moral to use the Holocaust to teach a lesson if in the process the truth of the Holocaust is muddled and softened? Do these inaccuracies not give the viewer the impression that a child could survive fairly well in a camp and possibly escape? This does not do justice for the one and a half million children who perished during the Holocaust. Furthermore, it paints the Nazi family in a light that offers them plausible deniability. This seems to pass all responsibility to the SS officers in charge. Despite the fact that not every German knew of the activities in concentration camps, the whole of the German people share a responsibility for the atrocities of the Holocaust, from which the movie seems to absolve
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