DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
mihoward I got a chance to watch this movie not too long ago and I was pretty impressed. Coming from a Jewish family myself, I am quite interested in the holocaust and know a lot about it. The movie was very emotional and sweet and somewhat accurate except for a few things. First of all, children in the concentration camps were taken somewhere different, often put with their mothers, so Shmuel would not have been with his father at this time. Also, the concentration camps were much, much more secure than in the movie. They often had multiple electric barbed fences surrounding them, not just one. So in real life, it most likely wouldn't be possible for Bruno and Shmuel to have met and talked every day, because Bruno would have gotten caught, and besides, he wouldn't be able to dig under the fence, due to how many fences were there.. Another thing, Shmuel would not be allowed to go over and sit by the fence while he was supposed to be working. Many of the events that take place in this movie would have been unrealistic because of how restricted the Jews actually were. This movie shows them to have quite a bit more freedom than they did in the actual camps. Besides those inaccuracies, the movie really did amaze me. I am impressed on how it showed the emotion of all those people being lost forever, but in a way, you see it through a child's eyes and how their innocence changes the whole picture. It was a beautiful movie and I would indeed watch it again for the amazing story, but I just wish that it was more accurate and portrayed more along the lines of what actually happened.
zeyan-30988 Today is the second time I watched this movie. I still that since the last time I watch this movie is about 5 years old, I was 12, I could understand this movie at all, all I have learnt about is "WWII is bad" or "Jewish suppose to be good" and "Hitler is a devil". Today after this movie I felt like something stuck in my throat and my heart was ripped apart, I want to cry out but I can't.
maoenjoyhappy During WWⅡ, Bruno from a wealthy family, whose father is a German soldier, moves to the countryside in where a concentration camp for Jews is back yard to his house. When exploring around his house secretly, he meets a boy dressed in a striped pajama, Shmuel. They are good on little by little... and they attempt to conduct an irreversible matter. One thing that I am relieved is that not everyone in agrees with taking part in the WWⅡ, even the top military's relatives as well. Also, it proves that children don't care about their race and background. This needs to be taught to adult at once seriously. This film is one of the best and touching ones that I have ever seen before in regard to WWⅡ. You'll never expect the ending literally and the story goes on making us breathless all the time. I would like people in the world to watch this and this will be helpful to change a way of thinking concerning war and discrimination.
Jean-Pol Cardin My opinion---"The boy in the striped pajamas" is a drama of war realized with the hands of a master by: Mark Herman, he knew how to put his sensibility on a subject that can not be more delicate than this black period of human history, with His deportations, his massacres, his pure horror. A very realistic and very hard movie on the concentration camps, and the story is really poignant, and the characters are well written and superbly interpreted by very convincing actors. Asa Butterfield in the role: Bruno and Jack Scanlon in the role of Shmuel (the Jewish boy) and Vera Farmiga in the role of Asa's mother and David Thewlis in the role of Asa's father. A movie that fills the spectator with emotion, a great film of its kind, because all these wars are also all the misfortunes of the world that fall on the heads of the innocent, a movie to be discovered absolutely for its sensitivity to the skin
