Boy In The Striped Pajamas Reaction

“The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas” was a film that debuted in 2008. The director of the film was Mark Herman and the film was set during the Holocaust. The film shows a young boy during the Nazi regime during the second World War in Germany. He father, who is in the military, got a promotion and his family has to relocated because of his fathers job. At first the boy, Bruno hated the place because he had to leave his friends to move and there was no one there nor a place to explore. His parents hired a tutor for Bruno and Gretel since they were not near a school because of the isolated location of the house. The tutor teaches hate propaganda and antisemitism to the children during their studies. Gretel soaks in all the information being thrown …show more content…
Though I really do not watch sad movies I have been wanting to see this movie but never clicked on it from my Netflix account. The Holocaust was a sad time in history and learning and watching videos about it really enlightens me about the tragedy. I was annoyed when the SS officer beat up Shmuel and talked to the older servant like a dog. I got a little gratitude from him being shipped off because he did not tell about his father because I did not like the way he was treating the other two characters, also I thought the daughter and his relationship was almost borderline inappropriate. I would like to know what made the director want to tell a piece of the holocaust stories through the eyes of a child? He did a great job of bringing out the innocence in the two children, like he thought he heard “The Fury” instead of “The Fuehrer”. I think this was an interesting take but it also showed tat no one is born with hate for anyone in their heart. Prejudice is learned through people. I often try to think what would make literally millions of people change their way of thinking and want to wipe out a whole entire group of people. I tr my best to understand but I can not fathom how in years after the German defeat in the first World War the Germanic people basically were on board with separating themselves from the Jewish people and called them inferior. When watching anything related to the prejudice such as Jim crow laws or holocaust related things I always think about the guest speakers who speak from their experience from it. While visiting the holocaust museum, my class got a lecture from a sweet elderly women who told us all about the death camps. After the descriptions on the daily lives that went on she showed us her arm where they tattooed her number on their. She goes on to say that this is was happens when you preach hate against another group of people. I remember my heart sank and I was frozen because I was in awe on the