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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Some movies tug at your heartstrings, this film stomps on them with Jackboots. As we come ever closer to the hundred-year mark since the end of World War II, it will be up to filmmakers such as Mark Herman to make sure that people remember the cost of that terrible conflict in human terms.
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The young son Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is most affected by the move as he is left bored and frustrated after living a normal life in Berlin filled with friends and adventure. His new home becomes a prison until he sneaks off the property and meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) who is actually a prisoner in an extermination camp now run by Bruno’s father. This friendship leads to a tragic conclusion.
The film has its critics who claim that its inaccuracies trivialize the holocaust, that the camps never had young children in them because the Nazis gassed anyone that could not work first (a charge also leveled at Schindler's List) but the tragedy that happened in World War II should be remembered in human terms, not just the dry analytical way that most history books deal with the past. This movie is very sad and very moving and will help to keep those atrocities in the forefront of peoples’ minds and that is as it should be.
Rob Hudson
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