When I first watched "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", I thought it was a warm story about a child who was sick and hospitalized and was rescued by everyone!
In fact, this film tells the story between the Jewish boy Shimour and the young son of the German officer Bruno during World War II, the film takes a very good perspective, using the world in the eyes of children, depicting the situation in the World War II concentration camp at that time, so that the whole film can overflow the child's innocence under the atmosphere of suppressed tension, which is in stark contrast with the suffering of the concentration camp!
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is adapted from the novel of the same name, with a Douban score of 9.1 points, higher than 98% of the feature films and war films, but from this data, it can be included in the must-see list, this movie is very different from most movies depicting Nazi concentration camps, such as "Schindler's List", "Beautiful Person", "White Lies", this is a child as the first perspective of the shooting!
At the beginning of the film, on the streets of Berlin, the little boy Bruno jumps home after school, but when he returns home, he finds his father packing his bags, and then is told by his father that the family is moving to a farm in the countryside, and it turns out that the father of the little boy is a German officer, and the reason they moved to the countryside is to manage a special "farm".
After the little boy Bruno moved to the countryside, he was very happy, and he was full of curiosity about this special farm, every day through the window of the home, he could see many people wearing striped clothes working in the farm covered with steel fences, Bruno was so bored, he had to face the same life every day, a person swinging, a person playing football, coincidentally he met the Jewish boy "Shimur" who was in the tightrope fence at that time, and the story began!
What makes "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" special is that he changed the perspective of the traditional adult, from the innocence of the child as the main line, using their innocent eyes to explain the original repressive concentration camp, in the concentration camp full of repressive death, it is very difficult to reconcile the innocent life with the cruel reality just right, but the director has resolved this seemingly impossible contradiction.
The sons of German officers and the children in the fence became very good friends, and of course they became the most innocent "victims" of the adult game. For Bruno, a German boy, the happiest part of his daily farm time was chatting with Himur, but he never mentioned this "special friend" to anyone.
Because when someone knows the relationship between the two, not only Does Shimur have to accept punishment, but he will also face the severe punishment of his father, although Bruno seems innocent, but he has already learned to avoid harm in his life at that time, although he is panicked in his heart, but they are powerless, and can only simply look at everything around them.
The climax of the film takes place in Bruno in order to help Himur's father who disappeared in the "farm", in the original plan, Bruno should have left the farm in the countryside with his mother to return to the metropolis, but on that day he secretly dug a passage under the fence with a small shovel, just to fulfill his wish to help Himur find his father, and The fenced Himmel also wore an extra "striped pajama", so Bruno successfully slipped in.
However, Bruno did not find Himur's father, but was shouted into the "bathing room" where he was cleaned by Nazi soldiers at the time, and never came out. When Bruno's family found out that their children had not been seen for a long time, they immediately realized that something was wrong and sent their men to search for Bruno's location with their hounds.
The Hounds took them to the so-called "farm" When Bruno's father saw the soldiers in gas masks, the world in his eyes suddenly became confused.
At the end of the movie, there is a gray and dark time of more than ten seconds, in that picture, with the first perspective of the characters as a description, there is no sound, the world is quiet and terrible, no one knows where they will be taken, because they know that as long as they walk into this "bathhouse", they have never come out, there is neither gunshots nor shouts of death, only numbness to life, and the impossible way forward!
The film uses the world of children to illustrate the time of the Nazi concentration camp at that time, uses innocence to set off the evil of the Nazis, uses the end of the child's life, perfectly portrays the ugly behavior of the Nazis at that time, as the film slowly advances, the audience is also brought into the plot, as Bruno steps into the "farm", the audience also picks up the heart.
This is not because of how good the acting skills of these two children are, but because the innocence shown by the two children puts the audience into the story, and the idea of innocence can always touch the soft flesh of the audience's heart, and then drag the audience into it step by step.