When I first saw the movie poster, I thought that this movie was about a sick boy, and I thought it would be very warm. In fact, the film tells the story between the Jewish boy Shamur and the German officer's son Bruno during World War II, and the film borrows the eyes of children to show the persecution of Jews by the German Nazis during World War II.
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is different from "Schindler's List" and "A Beautiful Life", which also describes the Persecution of Jews by the Nazis, and it completes the film from the eyes of children in german officer families. And the meaningful ending of this movie made many viewers shed sad and powerless tears at the end.
At the beginning of the film, on the streets of Berlin, well-dressed German boys play carefree games after school, but when the eight-year-old male protagonist returns home from Bruno, he finds that the family is packing all kinds of daily necessities, and the family actually has to move with his father, who turned out to be a German officer and was transferred to the countryside to take over a "farm", in fact, the farm is a concentration camp for the detention of Jews.
After moving to the countryside, Bruno became interested in the "farm" not far away, and secretly ran outside the farm with his mother on his back. Outside the farm, he made good friends, Shamur, who was kept in the "farm" and wore striped coats uniformly issued by the Nazis. Bruno thought it was pajamas, and thought it was a lot of fun on the farm.
Bruno thinks this because he accidentally peeks into the meeting of officers held inside his home, in which there are all kinds of interesting and beautiful pictures of the farm in the projection, and the moral-looking officers brainwash themselves and beautify the huge massacre into a beautiful life on the farm, while the eight-year-old Bruno thinks that the concentration camp is really a farm, and often asks Shamur about life inside.
After the two became acquainted, Bruno often played with Shamur with a leather ball, and across the barbed wire, the two chatted and played together, but often, as soon as the whistle sounded, Shamur ran away, because he was going back to the barracks. Bruno also brings food to the hungry Shamur, and the innocent friendship between the two is touching.
But there was also a misunderstanding between the two, Bruno's family held a banquet, the glass wine glass needed Shamur's small hand to be completely wiped clean, Bruno gave Shamur a piece of cake, but happened to be seen by the officer who passed by, the officer believed that Shamur stole it, Bruno did not help explain because he was afraid. The Jewish boy was beaten badly. Bruno later apologized, and the two men remained reconciled. This is the friendship of the child, no hatred, innocence and friendliness.
The film culminates in Bruno's determination to help Shamur find his father, who disappeared on the "farm". When Bruno was supposed to follow his mother out of the country, Bruno secretly took his tools to dig a hole in the iron net, and Shamur wore a striped pajama to let Bruno disguise himself into the concentration camp. The two of them succeeded, and Bruno entered the concentration camp as he wished, but instead of finding Shamur's father, the two were called by the Nazis to an enclosed bathing room...
It was raining so much that the children thought they were just sheltering from the rain, but they didn't expect that after entering the bathroom, they never came out again.
Bruno's family, after discovering that the child was missing, used hounds to track him to the concentration camp, but bruno was never found until Bruno's father saw the soldier wearing gas masks and suddenly fell into a trance.
At the end of the movie is a gray "bathroom" that lasts for tens of seconds, and there is no one in the picture, no sound, and no one knows what happened to this group of people. In the bath, several Jews discovered Bruno's presence, but they were all silent, probably seeing too many people around them disappear and so had no intention of rescuing the eight-year-old.
The film uses the eyes of children to look at the entire concentration camp, uses innocence to reflect the horror of the Nazis, and uses the final tragedy of life to portray the madness of the Nazis during World War II. Many viewers did not feel schadenfreude when Bruno finally entered the concentration camp little by little, but instead felt sorry for the children. This is not only because of the innocent acting skills of the main actors, but also because the children are victims of war, and they do not understand all the evils. The film uses this technique, with a seemingly calm tone, but in fact narrates the tragedy of the times.