The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is leaving Netflix soon
Added last December, the drama The boy in the striped pajamas released in 2009, it will leave Netflix France on June 14th after remaining in the Top 10 of the most watched films on the platform for many weeks. Many viewers discovered it through Netflix since the feature film was never released in theaters, but only on video.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by John Boyne published in 2006, the film tells the touching story of Bruno, an eight-year-old German boy, and his unlikely friendship with Shmuel, a Jewish child prisoner in a concentration camp.
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The story is set during World War II. Bruno, played by Asa Butterfield, is the son of a Nazi commander (David Thewlis) who is transferred with his family near a concentration camp. Exploring the surroundings, Bruno meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a boy his age, on the other side of an electrified fence. Unaware of the true nature of the camp, Bruno thinks that the inmates are wearing “striped pajamas” and doesn’t understand why Shmuel can’t play with him. Day after day, the two kids get along and form a friendship. Bruno brings food to Shmuel in secret.
A touching ending that left its mark
There can’t be a happy ending for a film that deals with the theme of the Holocaust. Thereby, The boy in the striped pajamas ends with a terrifying sequence, but also symbolic of Nazi barbarism.
As Bruno tries to help Shmuel find his father, he digs a tunnel under the fence and then enters the camp having exchanged his clothes for “striped pajamas”. The two boys are then caught during a roundup and taken to a gas chamber, where they die before Bruno’s father, camp commander, has time to stop the killing, which he himself ordered. This heartbreaking ending highlights the fact that he was willing to sacrifice millions of Jewish children, but did everything he could to save his son.
Source: Cine Serie
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