Life Is Beautiful: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

The string of films I watched in class awoke feelings of rage and sadness as I could do nothing but helplessly watch these films. I was purely shocked that humans could be so despicable and corrupt. “Life is Beautiful” was a film that not only did the film show me only a glimpse of how horrifying the holocaust is, but also depicted how love and the indomitability of humanity stood even in the midst of inhumanity. What truly shocked me was that despite being in such an abhorrent time, such affection and emotion was able to make its way back to families. Much alike “Life is beautiful”, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” was a film that contrasted not only, the darkness of the holocaust, but also the friendship that formed. The thing that stood out to me during this film was how the movie was portrayed throughout the eyes of the innocent and pure, starkly contrasting with his Nazi father’s heartlessness.“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” left me with almost tears as the forbidden friendship of the two young children had led them to be killed in the gas chamber. “The Pianist” was the film that truly opened my eyes regarding the holocaust, as it …show more content…
Unlike “Life is Beautiful” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, “The Pianist” was more of a monologue of Szpilman’s life, showing every inhumane moment. In “Life is Beautiful” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” there were often times where the protagonists would get lucky. “The Pianist” had none of these moments as there were people murdered randomly with no sympathy shown. I believe that this helped me understand truly how brutal the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of the Jews was. Another reason why “The Pianist” did the best job at capturing the emotions regarding the holocaust is because “The Pianist” showed the constant struggle for life, something that the other two films