The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas's is a creative film which reflects ones opinion on the aspect of peaceful freedom. The boy, also known as Bruno, is encountering complications that occur during World War Two, in Berlin, Germany. Bruno is a 9-year old boy whom has anger towards his family due to the fact that he had to leave his three best friends, Daniel, Karl and Martin- for life. As he settles into his new house, he notices a camp a few miles behind his house. He notices that this camp is enclosed by barbed wire and fences which he doesn't understand the importance of. As mentioned, Bruno had to leave his friends back home. One day, he feels that he needs to go on an adventure to explore the life outside the house. Bruno's family warned him not to leave the house without supervision or permission which he disobeyed to explore the fence. As a matter of fact, Bruno ends up at the camp and spots a Jewish boy named, Shmuel. Shmuel and Bruno become good friends. He mentions that his father, grandfather and brother are with him in the camp. In this respect, Bruno does not understand that he is getting himself into a bad situation which he is near a death camp. Bruno's mother persuades her husband to move back due to the fact that bodies are being burned right in front of Bruno's house. Shmuel, tells Bruno that his father is missing. After hearing this, he plans to sneak into the camp with Shmuel to find his father. Shmuel is in on this plan too which he gathers some prison clothes for Bruno. As Bruno and Shmuel go looking for Shmuel's father, the end up in a group of prisoners that enter the gas chamber. As they both hold hands, Bruno apologizes to Shmuel that they couldn't successfully find Shmuel's father. This horrific incident left Bruno's family in shock, as they were looking for Bruno. Next, Bruno's father ends up spotting, Bruno's old clothes that were beside the week side of the fence. they were trying to figure out what happened. As you can tell, Bruno's family is heartbroken and unsatisfied because o the death of their son, which they are very shocked and horrified about, and with this the movie ends!
The ability of one to experience the same aspects of what the Jewish people encounter in gas chambers is quite extraordinary. I can connect this situation to my life- when my mother passed away. The movie, The Boy in the Stripped Pyjama and I relate because Bruno's parents and I, have been through similar pain of loosing a close individual. in this movie, Bruno's parents deal with the death of their child as he was burned away in a gas chamber. They felt as if their hears sunk, and that they were broken into millions of pieces. Similarly when my mom passed away, I also felt the same heartbreak because I lost an individual that I really cared about. Also, I know and feel the pain that Bruno's parents went through and it is very hard losing a certain individual that meant so much to you. And both were also unexpected events.
A quick reflection on this movie, is that it was a great, intriguing and exciting movie that sets out a great example for the public to visualize how the Holocaust may have looked like. I believe this movie was very sad and frustrating especially near the end because the ending was extremely sad and was surprising. Also, I felt that the ending was a random end to the movie where maybe Bruno didn't need to die. But at the same time, the ending gave a good impact for the audience that was watching because it impacted them in a shocking way. The idea of meeting through a fence, and helping Shmuel find his father, was great way of bringing the boy into the camp and also showing how the camp may have looked like, from a prisoners perspective. Overall, I give this movie a 8/10 because the beginning and the way they developed the story was very interesting, and also the middle was very intriguing and had you sitting on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen. The ending was very evil and didn't give completion in my opinion, but it impacted my emotions greatly. I recommend this movie to a class, that is learning about the Holocaust for the first time, and also for a older audience due to the maturity level needed to watch the movie, at it plays with your emotions.
