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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: More serious than Spielberg .....

Posted by mr grits on December 14, 2008 at 20:12:09:
We now have an eight year old's viewpoint of the Holocaust from the German side. Daddy (David Thewlis) is made Commandant of a concentration camp (unnamed) and relocates the family to a very nice villa in the countryside. Bruno is allowed to play but not to peer out his window at what he thinks is a farm. The house is attended by a frail, dying Jewish doctor named Pavel. He is told, at first, by his mom (Vera Famiga), that Pavel and his kind were strange and not to be associated with.

As the plot dawdles along Bruno finds a way out of the back garden and "explores" the woods that leads to the camp just a short ways from the house. There he sees a Jewish boy sitting by the back wire and befriends him as he would any other boy. This leads to a string of events that ends with a tragedy as only it could.

This was a well acted movie and it shows the various viewpoints of Germans during the war ranging from pacifist to death's head fanaticism.

I would give it 2.5 out of 5 because it was not a well developed plot that gave you an ending without recourse. Great movie for history buffs though.