New on Netflix: one of the most moving films about the Holocaust

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a touching film about the Shoah

Released in 2008, the film The boy in the striped pajamas tells the story of Bruno (Asa Butterfield), an eight-year-old son of a Nazi commander during World War II. Unaware of the horrors of war and the reality of concentration camps, Bruno moves with his family near a camp.

There he makes friends with Shmuel, a Jewish boy of his age, imprisoned behind the camp’s barbed wire. If reality is obvious to the viewer, for Bruno, Shmuel is just a boy in striped pajamaslike the rest of the prisoners in the camp.

As the film progresses, the secret friendship between the two boys grows and Bruno brings food to his new friend who thinks he is only there temporarily.

This film, based on the novel of the same name by John Boyne, deals with the themes of innocence and friendship with particular sensitivity. and the horrors of war. It offers a unique look at these tragic events through the eyes of a child, creating a stark contrast between childhood innocence and the cruelty of the adult world.

A shocking ending

While films featuring children generally end optimistically, this is not the case The boy in the striped pajamas. Of course it would be inconceivable that the director ends a film about the Holocaust on a positive note, but this one is particularly cruel.

So, after exchanging his clothes for prisoner clothes, Bruno joins his friend Shmuel in the concentration camp, and the two children are sent, together with other prisoners, to the gas chamber. His father arrives too late to stop the infernal machine that he himself created, and the two kids die together.

A cruel ending, but also terribly revealing of the way the Nazis dehumanized the Jews and the way the commandant was prepared to do anything to save his son, but not the thousands of other children in the camp.

Source: Cine Serie

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