Camerawork In The Book Thief

Camera-work in ‘The Book Thief’ narrated by ‘Death’ helped me understand more about one of the main ideas ‘Humanity and Dehumanization’, the main character ‘Liesel’, and the setting ‘Holocaust’. This idea helped me realise how much the Jews were hated on, and they that were treated inhuman. The Camera-work made me want to focus on Liesel more, because of the way the angles were shot on her. The idea also made sure the ‘Holocaust’ setting was the most important by focussing on the more important things like the ‘Swastika”.

Firstly, Camera-work helped me understand more about the main idea ‘Humanity and Dehumanization’ by showing me how the Jews were treated and affected. For example, the camera’s showed the Jews in Germany, and focussed on the way they were treated. Like the man who owned the local shop. He was a Jew who lied about being a German, and ended up getting caught because the Nazi’s found his birth certificate and noticed his name was spelt differently. Another example of how the Jews were discriminated on was when the Nazi’s went around and checked all the basements to find any who …show more content…
There were many core things which appeared and happened during the ‘Holocaust’ and during ‘The Book Thief’ these things appeared. For example, the ‘Swastika’ popped up many times during the film, and during the ‘Holocaust’ that was the symbol of the Nazi’s. The ‘Swastika’ appeared almost everywhere in the film, like behind the President while he spoke, and hanging up all around the town in Germany. Another thing which happened in the film which also happened during the ‘Holocaust’ were the bombing raids. Every so often another country would drop bombs on Germany, and when that happened a siren went off to warn everyone. Personally I think ‘Death’ made sure ‘The Book Thief’ looked and acted exactly like the ‘Holocaust’ by having all the important symbols and events which